Will Overview Effect Make Everyone a Better Person?
Overview Effect, the feeling frequently described as "awe" experienced by astronauts upon seeing their home planet from space, is getting a lot of... Read more →
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DARPA Shows Progress on Phoenix Satellite Scavenger
Phoenix scavenger spacecraft gets to work deconstructing a satellite (Credits: DARPA). On January 22, DARPA released a video showing the progress... Read more →
Curiosity and Orion Parade for Presidential Inauguration
On January 21, Barack Obama was cermonially inaugurated into his second four year term as president of the United States. In celebration, states and... Read more →
Mona Lisa Tests Laser Communications
Lasers hold potential for any number of yet-to-be-developed space applications. Some ideas include shooting down space debris, laser-propelled... Read more →
Upper Stage Explosion Places LEO Satellites at Risk
Source: Orbital Debris Quarterly News Figure 1: The Briz-M upper stage contains a central engine and propellant surrounded by an auxiliary... Read more →
Orbital Debris Management & Risk Mitigation Now Available
NASA's Academy of Program/Project & Engineering Leadership (APPEL) has published a new text, Orbital Debris Management & Risk Mitigation. The... 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)
