Galileo Deploys Successfully
IOV satellites ejected from Fregat upper stage (Credits: ESA). Source ESA: The first pair of satellites for Europe's Galileo global navigation... Read more →
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Safety of Nuclear Powered Missions
A glowing Plutonium-238 sphere. These pellets are used for Radioisotope Thermal Generators (RTGs) - (Credits: US Department of Energy). The use... Read more →
European Soyuz Update
The first Soyuz to take off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana was moved to the launch pad on Saturday 14 October. The rocket that will... Read more →
Faults in Quality Control Caused Soyuz and Proton Mishaps
The European version of the Soyuz rocket preparing for launch in Kourou (Credits: ESA). According to Marina Gridneva, Russian Prosecutor... Read more →
Orbital and SpaceX COTS Demo Delayed
Orbital Sciences Corp and Space Exploration Technology (SpaceX) are pushing to the new year the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services... Read more →
Photos of Possible ROSAT Fragments
According to German space agency DLR, the 2.4-ton Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT) is expected to reenter Eart's atmosphere by October 22 or 23,... Read more →
![A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).](http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fluid-dynamics-trajectory-analysis-50x50.jpg)
