Errant navigation satellite reaches new orbit
The European Space Agency says a navigation satellite that ended up in the wrong orbit has completed a corrective maneuver.
Dec 03, 2014
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Space station dodges Chinese space junk
The International Space Station is out of harm's way after flying higher to avoid space junk.
Cassini prepares for its biggest remaining burn
(Phys.org) —NASA's Cassini spacecraft will execute the largest planned maneuver of the spacecraft's remaining mission on Saturday, Aug. 9. The maneuver will target Cassini toward an Aug. 21 encounter with Saturn's largest ...
Orbiter completes maneuver to prepare for comet flyby
(Phys.org) —NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has successfully adjusted the timing of its orbit around Mars as a defensive precaution for a comet's close flyby of Mars on Oct. 19, 2014.
ALMA pinpoints Pluto to help guide NASA's New Horizons spacecraft
(Phys.org) —Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are making high-precision measurements of Pluto's location and orbit around the Sun to help NASA's New Horizons spacecraft accurately ...
Contact with 36-year old spacecraft results in dancing, hugs. Now comes even bigger challenge
What is it like to make contact with a 36-year old dormant spacecraft?
Space station moves away from space junk
The International Space Station had to sidestep a piece of space junk.
NASA moves longest-serving Mars spacecraft for new observations
(Phys.org) —NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has tweaked its orbit to help scientists make the first systematic observations of how morning fogs, clouds and surface frost develop in different seasons on the Red Planet.
MAVEN on track to carry out its science mission
The MAVEN spacecraft and all of its science instruments have completed their initial checkout, and all of them are working as expected. This means that MAVEN is on track to carry out its full science mission as originally ...
Innovative auto steering device could save lives
It can take up to two and a half turns to steer a modern vehicle. While turning, the driver must release the wheel in the necessary hand-over-hand movement, which is unsafe. In his upcoming HFES 2013 Annual Meeting paper, ...
