Rockot Back in Business After Failure
Almost a year and a half after a launch failure, Russia's Rockot booster returned to flight on Saturday, successfully delivering four satellites.... Read more →
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Odyssey Back on Track for Curiosity Landing
NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has been orbiting the planet since October 24, 2001 (Credits: NASA). Source: NASA NASA's Mars Odyssey... Read more →
Closer Look at HTV-3
The Japanese HTV-3 that launched on Saturday is scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station with its 4 tons of cargo on July 27. Below, a... Read more →
Preparing for Safe Exploration of Mars
Source: David J. Geaney for Mars Travel Sometime between July 2005 and October 2008, a weak impactor broke up in the atmosphere of Mars and it's... Read more →
Baikonour Gopher Wins Fans Worldwide
Smack in the middle of launch preparations, heavy machinery moving directly overhead, a gopher lives in his hole in the center of Baikonour... Read more →
The Longest Continuous View of Earth From Space Hits 40
Swirls of phytoplankton make a Van Gogh-like scene in thie 2005 Landsat image of Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea (Credits:... 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)
