Collaborate Disseminate
In an historic experiment, ESA has made a controlled reentry of its Atmospheric Dynamics Mission-Aeolus (ADM-Aeolus) satellite in a maneuver designed to reduce the risk of such end-of-life events creating space debris or fragments reaching the ground.C… Continue reading Aeolus satellite burns up in historic controlled reentry
Badminton is not a sport that most of us think about often, and extremely rarely outside of every four years at the summer Olympics and maybe at the odd cookout …read more Continue reading Badminton Inspired Heat Shield Aims to Fly This Year
Low Earth orbit was already relatively crowded when only the big players were launching satellites, but as access to space has gotten cheaper, more and more pieces of hardware have …read more Continue reading Pinning Tails on Satellites to Help Prevent Space Junk
On April 28th, China successfully put the core module of their Tianhe space station into orbit with the latest version of the Long March 5B heavy-lift booster. This rocket, designed …read more Continue reading Look Out Below! China’s Heavy-Lift Rocket Due for Uncontrolled Reentry Within Days
Not so very long ago, orbital rockets simply didn’t get reused. After their propellants were expended on the journey to orbit, they petered out and fell back down into the ocean where they were obliterated on impact. Rockets were disposable because, as far as anyone could tell, building another one …read more
There’s no shortage of ways a satellite in low Earth orbit can fail during the course of its mission. Even in the best case scenario, the craft needs to survive bombardment by cosmic rays and tremendous temperature variations. To have even a chance of surviving the worst, such as a …read more
Continue reading Why Satellites of the Future Will be Built to Burn
Tiangong-1 is on track to destroy itself during reentry within the next month. Continue reading Why Is China Burning Up Its Space Station in the Sky?