Satellites
ROSAT’s Crash Site Determined
[/caption] The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has identified the ROSAT’s satellite final resting place as the Bay of Bengal, off…
Bringing Satellites Out Of Retirement – The DARPA Phoenix Program
[/caption] It's the dead zone. Approximately 22,000 miles above the Earth, $300 million worth of retired satellites are simply taking…
ROSAT Satellite has Re-Entered; No Reports of Debris
[/caption] It's official: the ROSAT satellite has come down. The Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), the German Space…
Latest Update on ROSAT Satellite: Uncontrolled Re-Entry on Oct. 22 or 23
This latest video rendering from from Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) shows ROSAT's current orbit, the satellite's ground track, and the…
Video: Thierry Legault Captures the ROSAT Satellite Just Before Re-Entry
I was waiting for this, and I know our readers have been looking forward to seeing astrophotographer Thierry Legault's images…
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Stage Set For SpaceX to Compete for Military Contracts
[/caption] The United States Air Force has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding or MOU with the National Reconnaissance Office…
ROSAT – Fiery Debris To Rain From The Sky
[/caption] The recent re-entry of the UARS satellite was not the end of falling satellite debris, as the German ROSAT…
All-Sky Camera Captures Mysterious Flashes
Every couple of weeks or so a strange flash appears on an all-sky camera that searches for meteors. What could…
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Crewed Variant of X-37 Space Plane Proposed
[/caption] As reported online at Space.com, the Boeing Company is already working on the CST-100 space taxi as a means…
A 3-D Look At Europe’s New Galileo Satellite Navigation System
The European Union and European Space Agency (ESA) will launch the first components next week of the €20 billion Galileo…