A flywheel design destined to fly on the Artemis 2 round-the-moon astronaut mission, no earlier than 2025, flew six parabolic flights in Canada during the week of July 15. Researchers flew in a ...

Bezos' rocketeers tout capability as useful for NASA and other tech providers Blue Origin has sent its reusable New Shepard rocket on another suborbital lob, this time simulating lunar gravity for ...

or for about 20 seconds during parabolic flights, Blue Origin said. The spacecraft carried 30 science payloads, all but one of which was to test technology under lunar-like conditions.

For the first time, Blue Origin put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a couple of minutes' worth of moon-level ...

A parabolic flight is the only platform that allows scientists to work directly on their experiments in reduced gravity. A campaign usually consists of three to four flight days. On each flight day, ...

Previously, the moon’s gravity could only be simulated for a few seconds at a time at NASA's zero-gravity research facility or for about 20 seconds during parabolic flights. Blue Origin ...

Twenty Czech students will take part in a parabolic flight as part of the Zero-G mission aboard a specially modified Airbus A310, provided by the European Space Agency (ESA). During the hour-long ...

Blue Origin's famed New Shepard spacecraft simulated the moon's low gravity on board its capsule during a brief flight Tuesday over West Texas.