Nov 1, 2020This Was Russia's Sad Space Shuttle. It Never Made It Into Space.nationalinterest.org - Kyle MizokamiKey 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 …
Greg Willisflipped into VaultStoryboardMars died billions of years ago and its guts are still spilling into spaceCurated byPopular ScienceHere are the week's best space discoveries.
JBflipped into Space UnitesAfter 20 years of service, the Space Station flies into an uncertain futureverified_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 …
CNETflipped into Living in the FutureSpace is closer than you think: What it means to be in orbitverified_publisherCNET - Stephen ShanklandSpaceX has made trips to orbit routine. Satellites in orbit are vital to the modern world. Here's what you need to know about how we send things whizzing around the Earth.
Ars Technicaflipped into Ars TechnicaThe Orion spacecraft is now 15 years old and has flown into space just onceverified_publisherArs Technica - Eric BergerIt 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 …
Australian Broadcasting Corporationflipped into Australian Broadcasting CorporationA thousand kilometres above Earth, a silent space race is bursting into orbitverified_publisherabc.net.au - Mark Doman, Alex Palmer , Nathanael ScottYou 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 …
Avatarcrosscourierflipped into The Universal Curiosity ShopEuropean Space Agency is sending a giant claw into orbit to clean up space junkverified_publisherCNET - Mark SerrelsThe Claw is our master. The Claw chooses who will go and who will stay.
AvatarAJ !flipped into CONCEPT ! SPACE ! TECH . . .The Plan to Turn Scrapped Rockets Into Space StationsWIRED - Daniel OberhausSpent 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 …
aperçu énergieflipped into DiscoveriesSpace Is Littered With Dead Rocket Stages. What If We Turned Them Into Habitats?verified_publisherPopular Mechanics - 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. And that junk just keeps piling up with the increasing commercialization of space, leaving …
Dragan Kljujicflipped into Future in Science and TechnologySpace balloon to ferry passengers into the stratospheresciencefocus.com - Alexander McNamaraA company wants to use an advanced balloon to fly customers from Earth’s surface in Alaska to the highest reaches of the planet’s …
Anton Prodanovic, Ph.D.flipped into Joys of ScienceUranus may leak gas into space at least once a daybgr.com - Mike WehnerUranus 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 …
Emil Francuflipped into MixedNasa astronaut drops mirror into space during spacewalkindependent.co.uk - Andrew GriffinAn astronaut has dropped a small mirror into space by accident, Nasa has said. Commander Chris Cassidy lost control of the mirror while leaving the …
Futurismflipped into FuturismChina Crashed Spacecraft Into the Moon so It Wouldn’t Become Space Junkverified_publisherfuturism.com - Dan RobitzskiThat'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 …
Robert Sflipped into Space ExplorationSpace Explosion: A Soviet Satellite Could Crash Into a Chinese Rocket Body TonightObserver - Sissi CaoTonight, 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 …
Euronewsflipped into NewsNASA spacecraft leaking asteroid samples into space is ‘victim of own success’verified_publisherEuronewsA NASA spacecraft has been so successful in grabbing rubble from an asteroid hurtling through space millions of miles from Earth, that it collected …
CNETflipped into Living in the FutureSee a rare Earth-grazer meteoroid skim us and 'bounce' back into spaceverified_publisherCNET - Amanda KooserA chunk of space rock spectacularly survived a close encounter with Earth.
Live Scienceflipped into LiveScienceEarth's new minimoon might be a rocket humans launched into space in the 1960sLive Science - Rafi LetzterObservers 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 …
CNNflipped into FeaturedNASA successfully collected a sample from asteroid Bennu, but some of it is leaking into spaceverified_publisherCNN - Ashley StricklandCNN — 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 to Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona in Tucson during a …
Los Angeles Timesflipped into TravelHow to best see Comet NEOWISE before it fades into spaceverified_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 our way all that often, at least not bright ones you can see with the naked eye. Get The Wild …
Slashgearflipped into HealthFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoChina Launches A Mysterious Payload Into Spaceslashgear.com - Shane McGlaunYesterday China launched a Long March 2F rocket that carried some sort of reusable spacecraft into space. Precisely what kind of spacecraft China …
HowStuffWorksflipped into ScienceSpaceX Launches 59 Satellites Into Space as Part of StarLink Projecthowstuffworks.com - Nathan ChandlerStar 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 Scienceflipped into SpaceWatch live as NASA launches a $23 million toilet into spaceverified_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 new design for the toilet is designed to be more space-efficient and to better suit the needs of …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNov 1, 2020Martian dust storms parch the planet by driving water into spacesciencemag.orgTwo years ago, Mars went undercover. Martian dust storms are common, but every decade or so, for reasons unknown, a monstrous one goes global, …
