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Lelac Almagor waits as her kids get ready for the ride to school. Her cargo bike is technically a trike, with two wheels in front for more stability. Jacob Fenston hide caption toggle caption Jacob Fenston If you live in any major city or suburb in the U.S., you may have noticed more and more parents hauling their kids around …

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A new private spacecraft aims to help the U.S. military get key supplies where they’re needed, and fast. On Wednesday (Oct. 1), the California-based company Inversion unveiled Arc, a vehicle designed to serve as an orbital storehouse and superfast delivery system for mission-critical gear, getting it anywhere on Earth in less than an hour. “With massive cross-range to cover great …

A new kind of delivery system is being set up in low Earth orbit. Inversion Space, a relatively small space startup founded in 2021, is prepping its space-based delivery vehicle for flight. The reusable spacecraft is designed to drop off cargo from space to Earth on a tight schedule, building a constellation of on-demand vehicles parked in orbit. This week, …

WASHINGTON — Sierra Space and NASA have sharply revised a contract to use the company’s Dream Chaser vehicle to deliver cargo to the International Space Station as the company pivots to defense applications. NASA announced Sept. 25 that it modified its Commercial Resupply Services 2, or CRS-2, contract with Sierra Space. That contract originally included seven missions to transport cargo …

The debut mission of Northrop Grumman’s new jumbo cargo spacecraft is going well. The Virginia-based company’s first “Cygnus XL” freighter arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) early this morning (Sept. 18), after a one-day delay. The key moment came at 7:24 a.m. EDT (1124 GMT), when NASA astronaut Jonny Kim used the orbiting lab’s Canadarm2 robotic arm to grapple …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A supply ship arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday after a day’s delay due to a premature engine shutdown. Astronauts used the space station’s robot arm to pluck Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus capsule from orbit as they soared over Africa. The 11,000-pound (5,000-kilogram) shipment should have reached the space station Wednesday, three days after blasting …

The debut mission of Northrop Grumman’s new jumbo cargo spacecraft didn’t go off without a hitch. The company’s first “Cygnus XL” freighter suffered a thruster issue in orbit early Tuesday morning (Sept. 16), two days after launching toward the International Space Station (ISS) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. As a result, “the Cygnus XL will not arrive to the …

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo ship, carrying more than 11,000 pounds of equipment and supplies for the International Space Station, suffered two premature engine shutdowns Tuesday, forcing flight controllers to interrupt a carefully planned rendezvous and delay the ship’s arrival at the outpost. It was not immediately known what went wrong or when the spacecraft might be able to complete …

One day after the arrival of a Russian cargo ship, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched an upgraded Northrop Grumman space freighter Sunday, putting the unpiloted spacecraft on course for capture by the International Space Station early Wednesday. On board: more than 5 tons of needed spare parts, research material and crew supplies, including holiday treats for the station crew. …