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How do cables and cooling lines transverse the pressure hull of the International Space Station?
Awarded 2 days ago
Can Falcon Heavy be used as a temporary replacement for the Falcon 9?
Awarded Jul 15 at 13:39
Why was Booster 9's 29 engine static fire ended 2.36 seconds early?
Awarded Jul 15 at 2:53
Why is the Dragon small compared with the Falcon 9 LEO payload
Awarded Jul 14 at 8:08
Are the pressurized modules of the ISS always open to each other?
Awarded Jul 5 at 11:50
How do you measure specific impulse Isp of a rocket engine?
Awarded Jun 30 at 6:03
What is the maximum number of times a liquid rocket engine has detonated/ exploded during development?
Awarded Jun 17 at 12:26
What is the goal of the message “astronaut use only” written on one Hubble's module?
Awarded Jun 14 at 22:33
Eye Spy: Where are the other two (of six) vehicles docked to the ISS in this Maxar image (& what are they?)
Awarded Jun 13 at 23:18
How much payload can Falcon Heavy Reusable lift?
Awarded Jun 13 at 21:35
Why does the proposed Lunar Crater Radio Telescope suggest an optimal latitude of 20 degrees North?
Awarded Jun 9 at 1:20
How much algae would you need to fully support a person?
Awarded Jun 8 at 5:47
Is it true that engines built in Russia are still used to launch American spacecraft?
Awarded Jun 6 at 22:51
How do satellites operate below their operating temperature?
Awarded Jun 6 at 16:58
Seeing stars in space
Awarded Jun 5 at 14:47
Are Hybrid Rocket Motors still in use?
Awarded May 31 at 15:56
How exactly does the JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) "see" light from so far away?
Awarded May 30 at 18:18
Can Maglev trains ever reach escape velocity?
Awarded May 27 at 18:04
Difference between true anomaly and mean anomaly
Awarded May 24 at 22:55
Using Dragon and Polaris Dawn to dock with near Earth asteroids
Awarded May 17 at 23:35
How does flying a steeper entry trajectory make the exclusion zone smaller?
Awarded May 14 at 21:25
What is the basic mechanics behind the way the orbits of the twelve Vela spacecraft evolved over decades?
Awarded May 10 at 19:41
Using Mars' inner moon Phobos as a brake
Awarded May 10 at 5:51
What is a K-bottle?
Awarded May 9 at 17:45
Did Boeing's Starliner do an inflight abort test?
Awarded May 9 at 1:49
Units of "pixels" in a research paper on digital streak formation for optical payloads
Awarded May 7 at 22:10
Which was the first liquid non hypergolic engine to be reignited in space?
Awarded Apr 30 at 21:41
How to determine the number of Multi Layer Insulation layers for a satellite?
Awarded Apr 26 at 21:03
How do I calculate a rockets burn time from required velocity?
Awarded Apr 26 at 18:37
Why aluminum is added in Multi Layer Insulation?
Awarded Apr 24 at 15:09
Where can I get an earth-centric map of space?
Awarded Apr 23 at 22:09
What is the provenance of this photo of the Great Lakes from space?
Awarded Apr 17 at 10:15
Could the Apollo 13 crew have survived the CO2 issue using their spacesuits
Awarded Apr 16 at 13:41
Why do scientists use specialized units for distance when metric units are perfectly adequate?
Awarded Apr 8 at 6:07
How to obtain UTC of the epoch time in a satellite TLE (two line element)?
Awarded Apr 1 at 22:57
Has a mockup/analysis of the Ingenuity 'bad landing' been created/posted?
Awarded Mar 25 at 22:36
How much will NASA save by shutting down the Chandra X-Ray Observatory?
Awarded Mar 24 at 17:06
How long does one orbit around the Moon take in a typical parking orbit for a stage a lander is going to meet?
Awarded Mar 21 at 16:11
Why are nitric acid and hydrogen combinations not used as rocket fuel?
Awarded Mar 20 at 14:36
Did IFT 3's Starship attempt re-entry with its payload bay door open?
Awarded Mar 16 at 17:32
Do lower pressure pressure-fed rockets get more Delta-V?
Awarded Mar 15 at 1:27
How many minutes of Lunar Sim did Neil Armstrong get?
Awarded Mar 13 at 10:45
How were Wikipedia's orbital simulations made?
Awarded Mar 7 at 5:27
If the Apollo 17 astronauts had gone for Mars, where would they have gotten?
Awarded Mar 6 at 17:56
Are SpaceX new space suits inferior to existing ones in terms of usability?
Awarded Mar 4 at 15:12
Why were the SRB cameras looking down called "forward cameras"?
Awarded Feb 27 at 8:01
Why does the Falcon 9 first stage perform a burn at 60 km altitude?
Awarded Feb 25 at 9:46
Why are there so many visible cables on the exterior of the ISS?
Awarded Feb 24 at 15:04
Will there be another joint International Space Station (ISS) after the current is retired?
Awarded Feb 24 at 10:56
Hydrazine and liquid fluorine as a semi-cryogenic storable lunar space propellant
Awarded Feb 22 at 11:27
Why are there six orbital elements?
Awarded Feb 20 at 16:47
What spares were taken on Apollo missions, and what was left behind? The question of gloves
Awarded Feb 18 at 18:21
Apparently the ISS cupola windows are Replaceable in orbit. What is the pressure hatch design and procedure used when the window is leaking?
Awarded Feb 12 at 17:12
Why not use containers to clean up small space debris?
Awarded Feb 11 at 8:47
How were the control surfaces of the Space Shuttle designed to withstand the forces of reentry?
Awarded Feb 8 at 20:17
Why does this "Midas missile early warning satellite" have a tilting cone with such a complex black-and-white checkerboard pattern?
Awarded Feb 3 at 6:35
How do cosmonauts board the Soyuz spacecraft?
Awarded Jan 27 at 11:32
Who navigates the ISS?
Awarded Jan 27 at 11:32
Largest solar panel (by area) deployed in space? Largest below/at/above GEO?
Awarded Jan 27 at 3:26
What is this patch worn by the American astronauts?
Awarded Jan 26 at 3:22
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