Asteroids and Comets

NASA’s Asteroid Capture Mission Gets Even Tougher

By Merryl Azriel on July 22, 2013

Target NEO Workshop held by the National Academy of Sciences explored the lack of target candidates for an asteroid retrieval mission (Credits:... Read more →

The Russian Launch Failures Of 2010-2014

Roscosmos Makes it Official: Proton Downed Due to Upside Down Sensors

By Merryl Azriel on July 19, 2013

Angular velocity sensors installed upside down have been confirmed as the cause of a July 1 Proton-M launch taking a nosedive (Credits: Rossiya... Read more →

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NASA’s Extravehicular Mobility Unit

By Staff Writers on July 19, 2013

NASA has not yet determined what went wrong when Astronaut Luca Parmitano's spacesuit filled with water from a leaking assemblage on his July 16... Read more →

News

Russian Military Satellite Re-enters Atmosphere 2 Years after Failure

By Matteo Emanuelli on July 18, 2013

The military satellite Geo-IK-2, lost due to a Briz-KM malfunction on Februaru 1, 2011(Credits: ISS Reshetnev). Roscosmos has confirmed that... Read more →

Space in Everyday Life

Not Because It’s Easy

By Merryl Azriel on July 18, 2013

George Schellenger is an award wining journalist and television producers with two passions: spaceflight and sharks. He combines the two in his new... Read more →

Space Debris Mitigation

Compliance of Rocket Upper Stages in GTO with Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines

By Staff Writers on July 18, 2013

Geosynchronous transfer orbit (2) bridges low Earth orbit (1) and Geosynchronous orbit (3) (Credits: Wikimedia). From May 21st to May 23rd, the... Read more →