ESA's Swarm dodges collision during climb to escape sun's wrath
A swarm? Of bugs?
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Jul 14, 2022
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What would a sustainable space environment look like?
October 4, 2022, will be an auspicious day as humanity celebrates the 65th anniversary of the beginning of the Space Age. It all began in 1957 with the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik-1, the first artificial satellite ...
Space Exploration
Mar 10, 2022
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A Chinese space tug just grappled a dead satellite
A Chinese satellite pulled a defunct navigation satellite out of the way of other satellites on January 22. The satellite, called SJ-21, appeared to operate as a space tug when it grappled onto the navigation satellite from ...
Space Exploration
Feb 2, 2022
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Artificial intelligence learns to predict solar flux
Researchers from the Department of Computer Systems Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,in collaboration with the University of Strathclyde (UK), used a deep learning approach that had previously shown promising ...
Planetary Sciences
Jan 12, 2022
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ESA's riskiest flyby
The chance that ESA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft will encounter space debris during its upcoming Earth flyby is very, very low. However, the risk is not zero and is greater than any other flyby ESA has performed. That there ...
Space Exploration
Nov 29, 2021
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When debris disaster strikes
In 2021 so far, some 2467 new objects large enough to be tracked have been added to world catalogs of orbital objects, out of which 1493 are new satellites and the rest are debris. While new objects are added, others are ...
Space Exploration
Nov 19, 2021
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A chunk of Chinese satellite almost hit the International Space Station: The space junk problem is getting worse
Earlier this week, the International Space Station (ISS) was forced to maneouvre out of the way of a potential collision with space junk. With a crew of astronauts and cosmonauts on board, this required an urgent change of ...
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2021
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Space junk: Houston, we have a problem
When we think of space, we think big and empty but when it comes to Earth's orbit, it's cluttered with millions of pieces of garbage that we call space junk.
Space Exploration
Jun 2, 2021
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Video: Orbital debris threatens satellites
The launch of Sputnik, humankind's first satellite, in 1957 marked the dawn of a new era for the people of Earth.
Space Exploration
Apr 20, 2021
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Space law is an important part of the fight against space debris
Space is getting crowded. More than 100 million tiny pieces of debris are spinning in Earth orbit, along with tens of thousands of bigger chunks and around 3,300 functioning satellites.
Space Exploration
Apr 15, 2021
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