Tag: maneuver

07 FEB

Falcon Heavy completes its final maneuver as SpaceX turns to the BFR

After the successful launch of SpaceX’s massive Falcon Heavy rocket, Elon Musk indicated there may be a change of plans coming. On the conference call where he confirmed the loss of its core booster, Musk said the company is focusing on the development of its BFR and has “kinda tabled” development of the Crew Dragon […]

03 MAR

NASA performed a rare evasive maneuver to stop a satellite from smashing into a Martian moon

NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona A NASA science satellite orbiting Mars was forced to make a rare evasive maneuver to avoid a collision next week with one of the planet’s two small moons, the US space agency said on Thursday. Flight controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, commanded the MAVEN spacecraft, which is studying […]