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Soyuz Rocket Fails – Progress Cargo Misses the ISS

By Andrea Gini on August 24, 2011

According to Roscosmos, the Progress 44 Cargo spacecraft, launched on Wednesday August 24 from the Baikonour cosmodrome on top of a Soyuz rocket,... Read more →

Space Safety Lessons from Earth

Choosing Safety

By Andrea Gini on August 17, 2011

Choosing Safety   Guide to Using Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis in Complex, High-Consequence Systems From the Back Cover... Read more →

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Pilot Issue, July 2011

By Andrea Gini on August 16, 2011

In The July Issue Welcome to the First Issue of the Space Safety Magazine Choosing Safety NASA Launches Satellite Servicing Experiment NASA... Read more →

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Going to Space on an Homemade Rocket

By Andrea Gini on August 16, 2011

Kristian von Bengtson (left) and Peter Madsen, founders of the Copenhagen Suborbitals, during the launch. Credits: Bo Tornvig, Copenhagen... Read more →

Spacecraft Design

Safety of Lithium Battery

By Andrea Gini on August 16, 2011

On 3 September 2010, a UPS Boeing 747-400 crashed close to Dubai airport, killing Doug Lampe and Matthew Bell, captain and first officer on board... Read more →

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Landing Curiosity

By Andrea Gini on August 16, 2011

Artist’s conception of the Curiosity rover being lowered through a “Sky Crane” from the rocket-powered descent stage. Credits: Jet Propulsion... Read more →