18 March 2020
Failure of China's Long March 7A launch could impact major missions
... by distant spectators, showed what appeared to be a sudden flaring within a few minutes after take-off, suggesting an explosion during, or soon after, second-stage separation. Xinhua said the cause of the malfunction will be investigated further...
10 December 2020
SpaceX's Starship test flight explodes during vertical landing manoeuvre
.... "Successful ascent, switchover to header tanks and precise flap control to landing point!" he tweeted shortly after the explosion. "Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high and RUD...
July 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
... the Earth were to collide with an object of about a kilometre in diameter, the energy released would be similar to a combined explosion of all the world’s nuclear weapons. Computer modelling has demonstrated that the release of so much energy would...
February 2016
Protecting Earth from cosmic disasters
...Simulation results The final part of the DCB’s journey in the atmosphere, as was noted above, may end in an explosion above Earth’s surface (like the Tunguska meteorite), on the surface or in water. It will be accompanied by a wide spectrum of damage...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
...diameter exploded over North America. As a result of this explosion, the continent’s biosphere was scorched and the ancient Clovis ... collisions with Earth happen on average every decade whilst explosions of up to one mega tonne in the upper atmosphere...
June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
... Technology, uses collectors that are not only useful for transport but also for technological production. Explosive processes in regolith, when hydrogen, hydrocarbon, carbon, chloride and fluoride enter the collector, create a regenerative reaction...
