Debris Remediation

D-Orbit Add-on Deorbits Satellites without Sacrificing Fuel

By Matteo Emanuelli on March 28, 2013

D-Orbit is an Italian start-up founded in 2011, offering a modular and indipendent device to dipose satellites at the end of life. D-Orbit has also... Read more →

Curiosity

Curiosity Resumes Scientific Operations

By Matteo Emanuelli on March 27, 2013

Curiosity's self-portrait from one the rover's engineering camera, the Navigation camera (Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech). NASA's Mars rover,... Read more →

Media

Dragon Returns to Earth

By Staff Writers on March 27, 2013

Dragon plunks down in the Pacific Ocean on March 26 after successful completion of CRS-2 (Credits: Space X). SpaceX's Dragon cargo vessel... Read more →

Press Releases

XCOR Fires Piston Pump Rocket Engine

By Staff Writers on March 27, 2013

XCOR Aerospace released the following statement on March 26, accompanying a video of the 67 second test. XCOR tests its piston pump propulsion... Read more →

News1

Proton Back in Service After Briz-M Failure

By Matteo Emanuelli on March 26, 2013

Proton launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome. (Credits: Krunichev). Russia’s Proton-M rocket lifted off with SatMex-8, a Mexican communication... Read more →

Deep Space Exploration

Space: Securing Communications with Quantum Teleportation

By Merryl Azriel on March 26, 2013

A beam splitter can be used to separate entangled quanta (Credits: Quantum Optics and Quantum Communication). Developments in quantum... Read more →