A Solution to Space Junk: Satellites Made of Mushrooms?
According to the latest numbers from the ESA’s Space Debris Office (SDO), there are roughly 6,900 artificial satellites in orbit. The situation is going to become exponentially crowded in the coming years, thanks to the many telecommunications, internet, and small satellites that are expected to be launched. This creates all […]
ULA launches U.S. Space Force missile-warning satellite, two rideshare cubesats
For the SBIRS GEO-5 mission, ULA’s Atlas 5 upper stage for the first time used the Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10 C-1-1 engine
Tyvak satellite on SpaceX rideshare mission carries tiny space telescope
Tyvak-0130 is a 6U cubesat about the size of a large shoebox weighing just 25 pounds
Space Force to spend years and billions of dollars to convert data into knowledge
Operators who monitor and track objects in orbit, for example, currently have to go to separate datasets for information and manually organize it in Excel spreadsheets
Bright Ejecta Reveals a Fresh Crater on Mars
Meteors hit much harder on Mars than they do on the Earth. Lack of atmosphere obviously contributes to that, but its proximity to the asteroid belt also makes the red planet a more likely target for some gravitationally disturbed rock to run into. Now that we have a satellite infrastructure […]