Debris from burning satellites could affect the Earth’s magnetic field
by The environmental impacts of spaceflight are becoming more apparent as more and more spacecraft are launched into Earth orbit. Scientists have been concerned for years …
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A dead Russian spacecraft almost collided with a NASA satellite. The crash could have sent 7,500 bits of rocket debris around the Earth.
A simulated image of a satellite collision and the resulting debris….ESA / ID&Sense / ONiRiXEL, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO NASA’s TIMED satellite narrowly avoided a …
A private sector lander was launched on a historic mission to the moon
Lighting up the deep sky overnight, a Falcon 9 rocket thundered away from Florida early Thursday, boosting a commercially built robotic lander on a flight …
We know what ‘foo fighters’ World War II pilots really were, say scientists
Experts argue that the strange properties of plasmas seem to behave like living organisms. – MasPix / Alamy Stock Photo In the 1940s, Allied pilots …
Russia wants to stop Ukraine using Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite.NurPhoto/Getty Images Russia wants to cut off Ukraine’s access to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites, analysts said. It has …
Starlink close encounters decline despite ever-increasing number of satellites
SpaceX reported that the number of close encounters between its satellites and other orbiting objects has not increased over the past six months despite the …
What We Miss When We Can’t Stargaze
The night sky full of stars at Geosite Isik Mountain Karagol campsite at Kizilcahamam district in Ankara, Turkey on October 14, 2023. Credit – Ahmet …
Evasive maneuvers increase the risk of satellites colliding down the road
Researchers have found that attempting to avoid collisions in orbit increases the risk of future collisions after each evasive maneuver. The reason? Current space traffic …