Decoding the Mystery of Destructive Reentry
As the number of space debris in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) increases year by year, it is becoming a major environmental concern for safe access to space.... Read more →
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Challenger: A Management Failure
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was probably the most significant event, in terms of its impact on the US space program, in the history of... Read more →
CAESAR: CNES Takes on Satellite Collisions with Debris Alerts
The French Space Agency CNES has developed a concept for in-orbit collision risks mitigation known as Conjunction Analysis and Evaluation Service:... Read more →
GPS Based Early Warning System Being Developed by NASA and Partner Institutes
Graphical representation of the Tohoku Earthquake and induced Tsunami.(Credits: NASA/JPL). A GPS based early warning system is being developed by... Read more →
Managing Low Earth Orbit Traffic with “Space Cops” – a Nanosatellite Constellation
With thousands of satellites orbiting above our heads, there is an urgent need for accurately predicting their trajectories to avoid potential... Read more →
India’s Mars Orbiter Mission Settled into Flight
India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), performed the Trans-Mars Injection (TMI) on 1st December, and is off on its long journey towards Mars. The... 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)
