April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
... both factors define the apparent position of the Sun and, thus, the local configuration of the shadow cone of the Earth. Any satellite in shadow would be in range, but not visible. Practically all Starlink satellites visible...
March 2021
Messier 82’s starburst magnetic highway
.... These extended magnetic fields help explain why the gas and dust (as illustrated here) have a more cone-shaped morphology than the familiar jet-like form resulting from the supermassive black hole accretion...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
... is the hidden ASAT. It would not take much to hide a small ASAT inside one of the massive exhaust cones of 1960s-era space boosters that remain in orbit. These boosters have already completed half of their Hohmann...
18 September 2017
'Mars crew' emerge from isolation after 8 months study on Hawaii
... in an isolated location is like for months at a time. The site is a former cinder rock quarry on the side of a spatter cone and the the weathered basaltic materials found in this part of Hawaii are reminiscent of the regolith found...
24 May 2019
SpaceX launches first 60 satellites of its Starlink mega-constellation
... as being the heaviest payload that SpaceX has ever launched, lifted off from within the nose cone of a Falcon 9 rocket that had blasted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force...
13 July 2020
UAE's mission to Mars scheduled for launch tomorrow
... through different seasons of Mars throughout an entire year." The probe, which is presently stashed into the nose cone structure that protects the craft (the payload fairing) atop of a Mitsubishi H-IIA booster, will be powered by energy...
