Asteroids and Comets

B612 Foundation Contracts for Sentinel Sensors

By Staff Writers on October 31, 2012

The following press release was published by the B612 Foundation on October 30: Sentinel's proposed orbit, from which it will hunt for near Earth... Read more →

Spacecraft Design

Knot: The Oldest Space Technology

By Tereza Pultarova on October 31, 2012

Knots adjusting the wiring on the deck of Curiosity rover (Credits: NASA). As noticed recently by some geeks around the International Guild of... Read more →

Media

Paintballs Win Move an Asteroid Competition

By Merryl Azriel on October 30, 2012

While there have been many proposals for preventing asteroid collisions with Earth, ranging from nuclear detonations to gravity tractors, paintballs... Read more →

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Federal Aviation Administration Grants Help Burgeoning Spaceports

By Merryl Azriel on October 30, 2012

New Mexico has the only official Spaceport America, host of Virgin Galactic's suborbital hub, but other states are clamboring for their own... Read more →

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Orbiting Breeze-M Explosion Poses Serious Collision Threat

By Guillaume Houdu on October 29, 2012

The explosion of the Proton Breeze-M rocket body increased the number of space debris objects in low Earth orbit (Credits: NASA Earth... Read more →

News

South Korea’s First Rocket Launch Postponed Following Fuel Leak

By Merryl Azriel on October 29, 2012

KSLV-1 on the way to the launch pad at the Naro Space Center (Credits: AFP/ STR / Korea Pool). On October 26, South Korea made its third attempt... Read more →