Past and Current Ariane Launchers
With a recent 63rd consecutive launch success, the European launcher Ariane 5 has a leader position on the commercial launchers market. In order to... Read more →
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Rosetta is an ESA deep space mission whose main objective is to rendezvous and orbit around the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in order to perform... Read more →
Driving K-10: Adventures in Off-World Telerobotics
From aboard the International Space Station (ISS), first astronaut Chris Cassidy, then his crewmate Luca Parmitano, remotely operated the K-10 rover... Read more →
American Company to Send First Commercial Astronauts to Moon
Astronaut Harrison Schmitt collecting rock samples during the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, the last manned mission to the moon (Credits:... Read more →
Rescuing Orion After Off-Nominal Landing
Rescue divers secure a flotation ring around a mockup of NASA's new Orion spacecraft during water splashdown tests in Florida in 2009 (Credits:... Read more →
Orbiting Breeze-M Explosion Poses Serious Collision Threat
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 →
![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)
