Impact Of New Satellite Launch Trends On Orbital Debris
More than 7,000 satellites have been launched into Earth orbit since Sputnik. However they stop functioning once they are out of fuel or one of their... Read more →
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Russian Proton-M Rocket Fails Again Destroying its Domestic Payload
Russian Proton-M rocket fails to inject its domestic payload into the desired orbit during its launch on May 15, 2014. Russian Space Agency... Read more →
Energy Resources for Space Missions
Today, energy is possibly one of the most critical sources for humanity. On Earth, we make use of different energy resources such as fossil fuels... Read more →
Malfunction of Kurs-Na Resulted in a Manual Dock with ISS
On November 29, 2013, Russia’s Progress M-21M resupply vessel had to be manually docked to ISS, due to the failure of the spacecraft’s Kurs-NA... Read more →
Blue Origin’s BE-3 Succeeds in Full Mission Cycle Test
Close up of the BE-3 static fire test (Credits: Blue Origin). Blue Origin successfully made a static firing test of its Blue Engine-3,... Read more →
In Third Launch Campaign, Falcon 9 Successfully Kicks-off into GTO
Falcon 9 v1.1 lifts-off from Cape Canaveral for its first GTO mission (Credits: SpaceX). SpaceX’s upgraded Falcon 9 (v1.1) successfully... Read more →
![A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).](https://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fluid-dynamics-trajectory-analysis-50x50.jpg)
