Infographic: Space Travel – Danger at Every Phase
Successful space flights are common enough these days - enabled by numerous nations, agencies, and corporations - that it is easy to lose sight of... Read more →
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Keeping Watch on Our Seething Sun
Artist's rendition of spacecraft being impacted by Space weather. (Credits: ESA). Source: ESA Our Sun is more active now than it has been for the... Read more →
Centaur Rocket Camera Shows MSL Spin-up and Separation
The video below, taken from a forward looking camera aboard the Atlas-5 Centaur stage, records NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) craft spin-up... Read more →
Flight Engineer Furukawa Pioneers Space Baseball
JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa who returned from a six month stay aboard ISS on November 22, spent some of his leisure aboard the space station... Read more →
Video Introduces Curiosity’s Sample Analysis Instrument
Source: NASA This video trailer introduces the mission of the SAM instrument suite aboard the Mars Science Laboratory, otherwise known as the... Read more →
Instrument-Laden Curiosity Heads To Mars
Source NASA NASA's Mars Science Laboratory lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida (Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Nov. 26,... 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)
