spacecraft

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Like previous tests, the company plans to launch the Starship spacecraft on an easterly trajectory during a roughly hourlong flight.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

National Laboratories and NASA, and in the deployment of space-based interceptors, intercontinental ballistic missiles and other spacecraft.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

The spacecraft achieved lift-off on a Vega-C rocket at 0352 GMT on Tuesday from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on the northeastern coast of South America.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

SpaceX still designs and builds its rockets and satellites in Hawthorne, which it touts as “one of the few” places in the world where an entire launch vehicle or spacecraft is produced under one roof.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

Unlike early Soviet space capsules, which were automated, American spacecraft required experienced pilots at the controls in case of malfunctions.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson