Earth’s Magnetosphere Behaves Like a Sieve
Source: ESA When Earth’s magnetic field and the interplanetary magnetic field are aligned, for example in a northward orientation as indicated... Read more →
Update: Breeze-M Explodes in Orbit Creating Debris Cloud
In the foreground, the Breeze-M stage is comprised of a central propellant tank together with its main propulsion system and an auxiliary... Read more →
Photograph of Spy Satellite IGS-1B Captured in Its Final Orbits
The only pictures available on the web showing the configuration of IGS-1A and 1B satellites appears to be this sketch IGS-1B is a Japanese... Read more →
X Class Flare Sends Waves of Ionization Over Asia, Australia
Views of the October 23 flare in different wavelengths as seend by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (Credits: NASA). Sunspot AR1598 emerged over... Read more →
Effectiveness of Post Mission Disposal Rule Could Curtail LEO Debris Creation
Artist's conception of a satellite breakup (Credits: William K. Hartmann). Although predicting the future debris environment is very difficult, a... Read more →
Expedition 33 Crew (Plus 32 Fish) on the Way to ISS
On Tuesday, October 23, the Soyuz TMA-06M space capsule was launched aboard the Soyuz rocket from the Russian Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.... Read more →