Satellites
Ice loss in Greenland is Accelerating
The rate at which Greenland is losing its ice is accelerating. This unsurprising conclusion comes from a new study based…
Micrometeorite Damage Under the Microscope
A new study by a team from MIT has shed light on the physical processes that take place when tiny…
It Could be Possible to Transfer Data Through Gravitational Waves
A new study by a team of Russian scientists demonstrates how gravitational waves could be encoded to send information, in…
A New Solution to the Space Junk Problem. Spacecraft with Plasma Beams to Force Space Junk to Burn Up
A Japanese-Australian team is developing a new way to remove space junk from orbit and sending it harmlessly towards Earth.
Look at all the Aerosols Pushed into the Atmosphere, from Fires, Volcanoes and Pollution. Even Sea Salt Thrown into the Air from Hurricanes
Using the Goddard Earth Observing System Forward Processing (GEOS FP) model, NASA recently released a visualization that showed all the…
A Satellite With a Harpoon, Net and Drag Sail to Capture Space Junk is in Orbit and Will be Tested Soon
The RemoveDebris satellite, a spacecraft designed to remove junk from orbit, recently deployed from the ISS to begin demonstrating its…
Musk Says that SpaceX will use a Giant Party Balloon to Bring an Upper Stage Back. Wait, what?
Elon Musks hints in a tweet that SpaceX wants to use "giant party balloons" to retrieve upper stage rockets.
Launching Rockets from Balloons is About to be a Thing, But We Need a Better Name than “Rockoons”
A new company is developing a hybrid rocket-balloon system to launch microsatellites cheaply from high altitude.
Now That NASA’s Missing IMAGE Satellite Has Been Found, Talking To It Is Going To Be Difficult
NASA has confirmed that their missing IMAGE satellite was indeed located by an amateur astronomer in Canada. But re-establishing contact…
China Has a Plan to Clean Up Space Junk with Lasers
A new study by a team of Chinese researchers considers whether a space-based laser station would be a good way…