Things That Go Boom in the Night
A Soyuz launch earlier this year. Another Soyuz launch nearly 30 years ago ended disastrously, out of public view but whose aftermath was noticed by... Read more →
Proton Launch Failure Update: Culprit Found
Angular velocity sensors installed upside down may account for a July 1 Proton-M launch taking a nosedive (Credits: Rossiya 24). It appears a... Read more →
Astronauts Successfully Completed First of Two July Spacewalks
Astronaut Chris Cassidy (left) acquired a total of 29 hours, 42 minutes of spacewalking time. Luca Parmitano (right) is the first Italian performing... Read more →
Astronaut Scholarship Foundation to Celebrate Skylab’s 40th Anniversary
Skylab, as seen by its second crew in 1973. America’s first space station celebrates its 40th anniversary this year and will be honored at an... Read more →
ATV: Helping Astrophotographers
This image of the European Automated Transfer Vehicle 4 (ATV-4) was captured on June 8 at a range of 281 km from the south of the Netherlands,... Read more →
Retired LEO Satellites Become Space Debris
Jason-1 satellite. Launched in 2001, it lasted for 11.5 years. Its data on sea-level rise were combined with Envisat's data (Credits: NASA). In... Read more →