Robotic Refueling Mission Demo Underway on ISS
International Space Station's Canadian Dextre robot moves the RRM Multifunction Tool towards the RRM module on March 8 (Credits: NASA). Tests of... Read more →
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Work Begins on Orion Thermal Protection System
Rendition of the Orion space craft on the Exploratory Flight Test 1 mission (Credits: NASA). Source: Steven Siceloff for NASA Workers recently... Read more →
Red Lines in Outer Space
The proliferation of very small satellites, like CubeSats, poses potential threats to spacecraft in orbit that should be addressed through... Read more →
Thruster Test Successful for ESA Lunar Lander
Source: ESA Europe’s ambition of touching down at the Moon’s south pole by 2018 has been boosted by recent test firings of the craft’s... Read more →
The State of NASA’s Cybersecurity
By: Rachel C. Samples A week before NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden, Jr. steps up to testify before a US House of Representatives... Read more →
US Congressmen Issue Letter to “Correct Safety Glitch” in Commercial Space
On February 29, seven US congressmen issued a letter to White House Office of Science and Technology Director John Holdren urging that NASA be given... 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)
