Rosetta’s Philae Makes Historic Landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Rosetta is an ESA deep space mission whose main objective is to rendezvous and orbit around the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in order to perform... Read more →
The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Accident
On October 31, 2014, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise crashed in the Mojave Desert, California, during a test conducted by its partner... Read more →
Orion Spacecraft – Exploration Flight Test-1
It’s been a long time since the Space Shuttle last flew. STS 135 touched down July 21st 2011 – the last time the USA had the capability to send... Read more →
50 Year Old Agena-D Rocket Photographed in Orbit
The Thor Agena B with Discoverer 37 on the launch pad Jan. 13, 1962. Imagine seeing the remains of a rocket launch from 50 years ago, as a fossil... Read more →
Suborbital Spaceflight and Decompression Risk
The disaster of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo has brought under public scrutiny problematics of safety in the suborbital space tourism industry. On... Read more →
Suborbital Spaceflight: Do We Need Accidents?
Do we really need to wait for accidents before we write a safety standard? System safety engineering answers that question with an emphatic NO.... Read more →