spacecraft

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Launched on Friday, the spacecraft will spend the next few weeks waking up its systems one-by-one: power, navigation, the cameras and sensors it will rely on, and check that each one survived the ride.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2026

So far 100% of identified objects haven’t been alien spacecraft, yet people like Steven Spielberg treat the simple fact of unidentified sightings as proof not only of alien visitation, but of government conspiracies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

"Eventually, our own Voyager spacecraft will be extraterrestrial artifacts in other stellar systems," said Dr. Sofia Sheikh, lead author on the paper.

From Science Daily • Jun. 23, 2026

Heathcoat Fabrics in Tiverton, Devon has been instrumental in supplying materials to slow down spacecraft as they land on a planet or return to Earth.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026

The best speeds yet achieved by any human object are those of the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, which are now flying away from us at about thirty-five thousand miles an hour.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson