Praise, Emotions, Mark End of NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services Program
By Jason Rhian NASA’s COTS program has seen two additional, private-public spacecraft travel to the ISS. Both Orbital’s Cygnus (seen here)... Read more →
Four-Time Russian Cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov Dies at Age 69
By Ben Evans Aleksandr Serebrov (center), flanked by Vasili Tsibliyev (left) and Jean-Pierre Haigneré, during Soyuz TM-17 training. It was... Read more →
Getting to the Root of Debris Predictions with Terminal Velocity Aerospace
On October 28, Terminal Velocity Aerospace (TVA) signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA Ames Research Center to collaborate on evaluation, testing,... Read more →
GOCE Reentry: in the Sky and in the News
The European Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite finally returned to Earth on November 11, burning in the... Read more →
System Safety Planning: The Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line Derailment
Outside rail of curve near point of derailment (Credits: Chicago Transit Authority). On July 11, 2006, a car on the Chicago Transit Authority Blue... Read more →
What Constitutes Failure?
I’ve been having some interesting conversations this week with readers of Space Safety Magazine, debating the balance between what we might call... Read more →