October 2015
Green cosmonautics: an ideal to strive for
... area size (overall capacity increase) Reliability - chances of having an accident during/after launch Toxicity and fire/explosion risks from rocket fuel, the level of pollution affecting the local environment, and the safety of areas...
February 2016
Data Systems to Support Early Warning of Spaceborne Emergency Situations
... across the Ural Mountain skies near the town of Chelyabinsk at just under 20 km/s, detonating in the atmosphere with an explosive yield approximately 25 times that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Over 1500 people were injured, most due...
March 2016
Gravitational waves provide new window on the universe
... 1: Comparison of Sun and Earth embedding diagram Black holes are formed when a massive star explodes in a cataclysmic explosion called a core-collapse supernova. The remnants of these types of dead star will form a black hole of a lower...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
... state-of-the possible, and help it become the state-of-practice in space operations. Sources of space debris include explosions of rocket bodies. Specifically, there are five key areas in which academia is uniquely positioned to become thought...
October 2016
The dwarf galaxy problem
... the idea that the hole in the ring-cloud could have been formed by a supernova (the death explosion of a massive star). This would have driven gas out of the local area and caused the hole...
April 2017
Mega-challenges for mega-constellations
... Satellite Program 5D series, which were all found to be equipped with a battery charger that made batteries susceptible to explosive rupture. Some 46 satellites get ‘stranded’ in space each year Such a design flaw in a large series of mega...
