spacecraft

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The company is developing a lunar lander, a spacecraft called Blue Ring and a satellite-communications network.

From MarketWatch • Jul. 8, 2026

All of it evokes 1950s sci-fi like “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” a sci-fi classic about a spacecraft landing D.C. that features a robot named Gort.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 6, 2026

The rescue spacecraft, itself moving, has to home in on a moving target.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2026

The rescue spacecraft developed by the US startup Katalyst is slated to lift off Tuesday at 1023 GMT from a Pacific Ocean atoll aboard a small rocket named Pegasus.

From Barron's • Jun. 30, 2026

The spacecraft must pass through the outer edge of this radiation belt to examine Jupiter and its moons close up, and to continue its mission to Saturn and beyond.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan