Space This Was Russia's Sad Space Shuttle. It Never Made It Into Space. nationalinterest.org - Kyle Mizokami Key Point: The Buran program, which once involved the hard work of so many talented individuals and so much of the USSR’s treasure, is now a footnote …
Mars died billions of years ago and its guts are still spilling into spaceBy Popular ScienceHere are the week's best space discoveries.
Ars TechnicaSpace Station After 20 years of service, the Space Station flies into an uncertain future verified_publisherArs Technica - Eric Berger “We do have to think about the fact that 20 years is a long time.” The Cold War had been concluded for less than a decade when NASA astronaut Bill …
CNETSpacecraft Orbits explained: It's hard to get into space -- but great once you're there verified_publisherCNET - Stephen Shankland Let Isaac Newton be your guide to whirling around the Earth.
Ars TechnicaSpacecraft The Orion spacecraft is now 15 years old and has flown into space just once verified_publisherArs Technica - Eric Berger It was supposed to be the beginning of the Mars era. The December dawn felt hopeful as we stood outside, watching NASA's Orion spacecraft streak into …
Earth Observation A thousand kilometres above Earth, a silent space race is bursting into orbit verified_publisherabc.net.au - Mark Doman, Alex Palmer , Nathanael Scott You may not know it yet, but the world is in the middle of a new-age space race. There has been an explosion in the volume of technology being …
CNETEuropean Space Agency European Space Agency is sending a giant claw into orbit to clean up space junk verified_publisherCNET - Mark Serrels The Claw is our master. The Claw chooses who will go and who will stay.
WIREDSpace The Plan to Turn Scrapped Rockets Into Space Stations WIRED - Daniel Oberhaus Spent rockets are dangerous space trash, but they could be the future of living and working in orbit. In early October, a dead Soviet satellite and …
Popular MechanicsSpace Space Is Littered With Dead Rocket Stages. What If We Turned Them Into Habitats? verified_publisherPopular Mechanics - By Tim ChildersOne company wants to fashion space stations out of space junk. Will it work? Just outside the upper reaches of our atmosphere, past the line separating Earth from space, lies an orbital junkyard of debris....
Kodiak Island Space balloon to ferry passengers into the stratosphere sciencefocus.com - Alexander McNamara Each passenger could pay an estimated $125,000 (£100,000) for a six-hour journey. A company wants to use an advanced balloon to fly customers from …
Earth Science Uranus may leak gas into space at least once a day bgr.com - Mike Wehner Uranus is weird. It’s unlike any other planet in our solar system for a number of reasons, but its most bizarre feature is that it rotates at a …
NASA Nasa astronaut accidentally drops mirror into space independent.co.uk - Andrew Griffin An astronaut has dropped a small mirror into space by accident, Nasa has said. Commander Chris Cassidy lost control of the mirror while leaving the …
Moon China crashed spacecraft into the Moon so it wouldn't become space junk verified_publisherfuturism.com That's one way to do it. Left Behind In a bid to avoid cluttering space with even more pieces of orbital debris, the Chinese space agency crashed part …
Soviet Union Space Explosion: A Soviet Satellite Could Crash Into a Chinese Rocket Body Tonight observer.com - Sissi Cao Tonight, a dead Soviet satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket body will fly toward each other, reaching as close as 12 meters (39 feet) apart, and …
EuronewsSpacecraft NASA spacecraft leaking asteroid samples into space is ‘victim of own success’ verified_publisherEuronews A NASA spacecraft has been so successful in grabbing rubble from an asteroid hurtling through space millions of miles from Earth, that it collected …
CNETMeteoroid See a rare Earth-grazer meteoroid skim us and 'bounce' back into space verified_publisherCNET - Amanda Kooser A chunk of space rock spectacularly survived a close encounter with Earth.
Live ScienceScience Earth's new minimoon might be a rocket humans launched into space in the 1960s Live Science - Rafi Letzter Observers think it may have been launched into space in the 1960s. Earth is getting a small new moon, but it might have been made by …
CNNAsteroids NASA collected a sample from asteroid Bennu, but some of it is leaking into space verified_publisherCNN - By Ashley Strickland(CNN) — The historic collection of a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Tuesday was almost too successful. Some of the sample is leaking into space, according...
Los Angeles TimesComet Neowise How to best see Comet NEOWISE before it fades into space verified_publisherLos Angeles Times - Mary ForgioneComet NEOWISE is putting on a spectacular fireball show in the night sky. Never heard of it? The glowing-tail beauty has been wowing comet watchers around the world this week. Comets don’t come streaking...
Spacecraft China launches a mysterious payload into space slashgear.com - Shane McGlaun Yesterday China launched a Long March 2F rocket that carried some sort of reusable spacecraft into space. Precisely what kind of spacecraft China …
Starlink SpaceX Launches 59 Satellites Into Space as Part of StarLink Project howstuffworks.com - by Nathan Chandler Star Wars is coming to life — and right now, the corporate Empire is winning the battle. We're referring, of course, to SpaceX's StarLink project, …
Popular ScienceDesign Watch live as NASA launches a $23 million toilet into space verified_publisherPopular Science - Rachael ZiskIt’ll be the first new loo since the 1990s. NASA spent $23 million designing a new and improved space toilet for the astronauts on the International Space Station, and it’s set to launch this week. The...
Mars Express Martian dust storms parch the planet by driving water into space sciencemag.org - Paul Voosen Two years ago, Mars went undercover. Martian dust storms are common, but every decade or so, for reasons unknown, a monstrous one goes global, …
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