Third Radiation Belt Surprises RBSP Scientists
Visualization using actual data from the Relativistic Electron-Proton Telescopes (REPT) on NASA’s Van Allen Probes shows three radiation belts, in... Read more →
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Inspiration Mars: How it will Work
The buzz started well before Inspiration Mars' February 27 press conference, but it has only gotten louder in the hours since. With little more than... Read more →
How and When did the Challenger Astronauts Die?
The intact Challenger cabin plunge into the ocean. Astronauts inside activated their emergency oxygen supply, an evidence they were still alive On... Read more →
Debris Falls from Orbit, Slowly
On February 25, projections forecast decay of a piece of catalogued debris from the Breeze-M upper stage that malfunctioned during an August 6,... Read more →
Antares Hot Fire Successful, Prepares for Flight
Antares hot fire on February 22 (Credits: Orbital Sciences). On February 22, just over a week after a last second abort, Orbital Sciences Corp.... Read more →
Sunspot Delta Region Ripe for Eruptions
Sunspot AR1678 forms an unstable delta region Feb 19-20. This image is a composite from two instruments aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory... 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)
