Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield gathered a remarkable following during his time in space, with his demonstration videos, song recordings, and photographs going viral throughout his five month spaceflight. But ask him what he’s most proud of accomplishing during this mission, and he’ll happily tell you about the amazing science he and his crew accomplished, the last minute EVA they pulled [...]
At 05:38 GMT on Thursday 23rd May, Ecuador’s first and only satellite collided with the fuel tank of an S14 Soviet rocket, which was launched in 1985. Luckily, the satellite in question, named “Pegaso”, was only a CubeSat, with a mass of only 1.2 kg, so the amount of extra space debris generated was minimal, but it still provides an [...]
The Ecuadorean space agency (EXA) announced that NEE-01 Pegaso, the first Ecuadorian satellite encountered a field of micro particles left by a Soviet rocket at 640 km of altitude. It is still unclear if the collision may have damaged the satellite. On May 22, the U.S. Joint Space Operations Center notified EXA of a possible collision for the day after, [...]
A well known constraint of robotic exploration is the speed at which robotic rovers travel. That is, they travel very slowly. A case in point is the Mars laboratory Curiosity. Since its landing in August 2012, Curiosity has travelled just 0.7 km. But one thing you can say for robots: they sure don’t give up. Until May 16, 2013, the [...]
By David Gobby The American Idol-style audition process for those who want to take part in the proposed MarsOne project to build a human outpost on Mars will provide a great laboratory for the study of human systems. To Dr. Raye Kass, an adviser to the project and a Concordia University professor of applied human sciences who wrote about it [...]
The Ecuadorean space agency (EXA) announced that NEE-01 Pegaso, the first Ecuadorian satellite encountered a field of micro particles left by a Soviet rocket at 640 km of altitude. It is still unclear if the collision may have damaged the satellite. On May 22, the U.S. Joint Space Operations Center notified EXA of a possible collision for the day after, [...]
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At 05:38 GMT on Thursday 23rd May, Ecuador’s first and only satellite collided with the fuel tank of an S14 Soviet rocket, which was launched in 1985. Luckily, the satellite in question, named “Pegaso”, was only a CubeSat, with a mass of only 1.2 kg, so the amount of extra space debris generated was minimal, but it still provides an [...]
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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield gathered a remarkable following during his time in space, with his demonstration videos, song recordings, and photographs going viral throughout his five month spaceflight. But ask him what he’s most proud of accomplishing during this mission, and he’ll happily tell you about the amazing science he and his crew accomplished, the last minute EVA they pulled [...]
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The Space Safety Community gathered in Montreal for the 6th IAASS conference “Safety is not an Option” on May 21. Hosted by McGill University, the conference started with a plenary session chaired by Paul Kirkpatrick, head of the IAASS Technical Training Committee, and Rahm Jakhu, head of IAASS Legal and Regulatory Committee. Tommaso Sgobba, IAASS President, opened the conference with a [...]
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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield gathered a remarkable following during his time in space, with his demonstration videos, song recordings, and photographs going viral throughout his five month spaceflight. But ask him what he’s most proud of accomplishing during this mission, and he’ll happily tell you about the amazing science he and his crew accomplished, the last minute EVA they pulled [...]
At 05:38 GMT on Thursday 23rd May, Ecuador’s first and only satellite collided with the fuel tank of an S14 Soviet rocket, which was launched in 1985. Luckily, the satellite in question, named “Pegaso”, was only a CubeSat, with a mass of only 1.2 kg, so the amount of extra space debris generated was minimal, but it still provides an [...]
The Ecuadorean space agency (EXA) announced that NEE-01 Pegaso, the first Ecuadorian satellite encountered a field of micro particles left by a Soviet rocket at 640 km of altitude. It is still unclear if the collision may have damaged the satellite. On May 22, the U.S. Joint Space Operations Center notified EXA of a possible collision for the day after, [...]
A well known constraint of robotic exploration is the speed at which robotic rovers travel. That is, they travel very slowly. A case in point is the Mars laboratory Curiosity. Since its landing in August 2012, Curiosity has travelled just 0.7 km. But one thing you can say for robots: they sure don’t give up. Until May 16, 2013, the [...]
By David Gobby The American Idol-style audition process for those who want to take part in the proposed MarsOne project to build a human outpost on Mars will provide a great laboratory for the study of human systems. To Dr. Raye Kass, an adviser to the project and a Concordia University professor of applied human sciences who wrote about it [...]
European Space Agency (ESA) has inaugurated the Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre (NEO-CC) at the European Space Research Institute in Frascati, near Rome, on May 22. It is the second center opened by ESA in 2013 under the Situational Awareness (SSA) Program, after the Space Weather Coordination Centre in Brussels. “This is another major milestone just few weeks after the inauguration [...]
On May 21st, the 6th IAASS Conference “Safety is Not an Option” kicked off in Montreal. US government officials, barred from international travel by budget constraints within their agencies, have nonetheless been anxious to participate via video feed. The US Air Force Chief of Safety, Major General Margareth H. Woodward, was one such, and now you can enjoy her talk even [...]
Dream Chaser, the crewed orbital and suborbital vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing lifting-body vehicle, has been delivered to NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California as of May 15. The vehicle, being developed by Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Space Systems, will undergo a series of tests on its flight and runway landing system. “This will be the first full scale flight test [...]
The Space Safety Community gathered in Montreal for the 6th IAASS conference “Safety is not an Option” on May 21. Hosted by McGill University, the conference started with a plenary session chaired by Paul Kirkpatrick, head of the IAASS Technical Training Committee, and Rahm Jakhu, head of IAASS Legal and Regulatory Committee. Tommaso Sgobba, IAASS President, opened the conference with a [...]
United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Delta 4 rocket carrying a military communications satellite is ready to lift off from Cape Canaveral, on May 23. The launch will mark the return to operations for Delta 4, which has remained idle since last October after it suffered a low-thrust condition on its upper stage. The rocket received the clearance for flight although the [...]
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