ROSAT Reenters Earth’s Atmosphere
The 2.7 tons German Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT) made its final dive into Earth's atmosphere in the night of October 22, 2011, but German Aerospace... Read more →
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UPDATE: ROSAT Reentry Expected in the Next 24 Hours
UPDATE Sat 22 Oct 18:00UT ROSAT orbit 87.79 minutes, 161.4 x 167.3 km Position 30.6S,51.9E alt=167.2km Unlit ~Re-entry ~13h The... Read more →
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 →
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 →
![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)
