Ongoing Engine Failure Investigation Forces Orbital Sciences to Delay Upcoming ISS Resupply Flight a Second Time
By Mike Killian An ongoing engine failure investigation has forced Orbital Sciences to, for a second time, delay launch of their next Antares... Read more →
Living with Columbia: Interview with Mike Cianilli
Mike Ciannilli with his long-time charge, the orbiter Columbia (Credits: Mike Ciannilli). On February 1, 2003, Mike Ciannilli was a contractor for... Read more →
A Rocket Engine Seen from the Ground
On April 18, 2014 the SpaceX Dragon CRS-3 ISS resupply ship was launched into space. 23 minutes after the spacecraft left the ground, it would... Read more →
Will Anyone Recover Apollo 13’s Plutonium?
By Matthew Van Dusen, Editor, Txchnologist.com President Nixon (right) presenting the nation’s highest civilian award to the Apollo 13 crew... Read more →
Astrophotography and Space Debris
On November 29, 2011 photographs of the stranded Russian probe Phobos-Grunt, lost in Earth’s orbit right after launch, began appearing online.... 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 →