Controlling Rocket Body Reentry Risks
Large launch vehicle orbital stages, like this Atlas V Centaur stage, can pose human casualty risks exceeding widely accepted norms (Credits:... Read more →
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Austrian Caves Stand In For Mars
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![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)
