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NEOSSat orbiting above Canada (Credits: University of Calgary). Canada's first space telescope NEOSSat (Near-Earth Object Space Surveillance... Read more →
Superconducting Magnets to Protect Spacecraft from Radiation
While on Earth, the planet protects us from space radiation and cosmic rays with its magnetic field. NASA scientists are now working on an analogous... Read more →
ESA’s FlySafe to Make Flying Safer
Bird tracking from ground and space helps planes avoid bird strike (Credits: ESA). Bird strike, when an airplane flies into one or more birds... Read more →
Spacecraft Duo to Deflect Asteroid
Artist’s concept of the US-European Asteroid Impact and Deflection mission (Credits: ESA). The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to send a pair... Read more →
Recovery Maneuver of Troubled Japanese Venus Probe Akatsuki Expected in 2015
Japan's Venus Climate Orbiter "Akatsuki" (Credits: Akihiro Ikeshita/JAXA). Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft, that failed to achieve Venus orbit two... Read more →
Nuclear Engine Prototype Test Successful
A proposed deep space probe to Jupiter using the new engine (Credits: Los Alamos National Laboratory). Scientists at NASA and Los Alamos National... Read more →