Fortunately, we have something that provides a pretty good approximation to an ETI signal. The Pioneer 10 spacecraft was launched in 1972. After sending back the first close-up pictures of Jupiter and ...

An almost identical spacecraft named Pioneer 10 made it past Neptune's orbit about seven years earlier. Both Pioneer spacecraft carried gold plaques with information about Earth just in case they ...

The company states: “Rocket Lab (RKLB) USA announced its second Pioneer spacecraft for Varda Space Industries, Inc. is successfully operating on orbit. The mission launched January 14 ...

The Pioneer spacecraft leverages Rocket Lab’s vertically ... risks and uncertainties included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, as such factors ...

Rocket Lab designed and built the Pioneer spacecraft that hosted Varda’s capsule on orbit for six weeks carrying payloads for the U.S. Air Force Research Lab and NASA. The companies have ...

Alexei Leonov was a pioneer in multiple ways for space exploration ... He would not return to space for 10 years. The delays ultimately proved yet again historic for Leonov, with the Soviet ...

Rocket Lab's Pioneer spacecraft for Varda Space Industries' W-3 mission integrated onto Transporter-13 at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Credit: SpaceX LONG BEACH, Calif., March 15, 2025--(BUSINESS ...