12K views · 555 reactions | Last month, NASA's Europa Clipper Mission launched and began its 1.8-billion-mile journey to Jupiter's ocean moon. One of the people who made this possible is Valeria Salazar, a systems engineer who helped integrate and assemble hundreds of components that comprise the spacecraft. | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Facebook

91K views · 2K reactions | SpaceX’s massive Starship spacecraft exploded minutes after lifting off from Texas. This is the second straight failure this year for Elon Musk’s Mars rocket programme. Starship broke up in space shortly after it began to spin uncontrollably with its engines cut off. Several videos on social media showed fiery debris streaking through the skies near south Florida and the Bahamas. Link in bio to read more #rtenews #spacex | RTÉ News | Facebook

A critical element of spacecraft design and mission planning is maximizing propulsion system efficiency, particularly for more ambitious missions. To accomplish this, NASA employs gravity assists, also known as a gravitational slingshot or flyby. Every planet in our solar system has a unique orbital speed as it travels around the Sun. When a spacecraft approaches a planet in orbit, it's pulled into the planet's gravitational field, changing trajectory and increasingly gaining speed as it nears t

121K views · 2.8K reactions | First, powerful engines fire up,...