Becoming a Cosmonaut
Roscosmos completed a selection round of a new cosmonaut candidate class not too long ago...this infographic from RIA Novosti prompted a look back at... Read more →
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Subject to Orbital Debris Impact
Introduction The hazard from orbital debris is of growing international concern for the safety of space-based infrastructure. Because of their... Read more →
How NASA Space Assets Will Observe Comet ISON
Comet ISON, discovered September 21, 2012, presents a rare opportunity to study a "fresh" comet - one newly detached from the Oort Cloud, carrying... Read more →
An Elevator to Space: Markus Landgraf at TEDxRheinMain
Markus Landgraf is mission analyst at the European Space Agency ESA in Darmstadt/Germany. His is always looking for technologies that will open new... Read more →
NASA’s Extravehicular Mobility Unit
NASA has not yet determined what went wrong when Astronaut Luca Parmitano's spacesuit filled with water from a leaking assemblage on his July 16... Read more →
Compliance of Rocket Upper Stages in GTO with Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines
Geosynchronous transfer orbit (2) bridges low Earth orbit (1) and Geosynchronous orbit (3) (Credits: Wikimedia). From May 21st to May 23rd, 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)
