GOCE Reentry: in the Sky and in the News
The European Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite finally returned to Earth on November 11, burning in the... Read more →
System Safety Planning: The Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line Derailment
Outside rail of curve near point of derailment (Credits: Chicago Transit Authority). On July 11, 2006, a car on the Chicago Transit Authority Blue... Read more →
What Constitutes Failure?
I’ve been having some interesting conversations this week with readers of Space Safety Magazine, debating the balance between what we might call... Read more →
Researchers Develop Water Splitting Solar-Thermal System to Produce Hydrogen Fuel
A laboratory model of a multi-tube solar reactor at the University of Colorado Boulder that can be used to split water in order to produce clean... Read more →
Grasshopper’s Journey Hints at New Era in Spaceflight
The first landing of the VTVL DC-X Advanced in 1996 (Credits: NASA). In 1997 McDonnell Douglas was the prime contractor in the Delta... Read more →
Could a Vegetable Compound Protect Against the Effects of Radiation?
DIM could be used to protect astronauts during space travel (Credits: NASA). A compound found in cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage, broccoli,... Read more →