satellites

Staring at the sun: Solar Orbiter telescopes will get closest view yet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 20, 2018
European Space Agency’s seven-year, €1bn mission will investigate the effects of the sun on satellite technology

By David Aragorn
This is the COOLEST! Everything that’s Orbiting the Earth Right Now 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 11, 2018
Okay, if you’ve got some spare time, check out this amazing website called Stuff in Space. It’s a simulation of every satellite (alive or dead), space station, and large piece of space junk orbiting the Earth right now.

By David Aragorn
The Space Junk Problem Is About to Get a Whole Lot Gnarlier 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 4, 2017
For a few months in the fall of 1957, citizens of Earth could look up and see the first artificial star. It shone as bright as Spica, but moved across the sky at a much faster clip. Lots of people thought they were seeing Sputnik—Russia’s antennaed, spherical satellite, and the first thing humans had flung into orbit. But it wasn’t: It was the body of the rocket that bore Sputnik to space—and Earth’s first piece of space junk.

By David Aragorn
Russia develops satellite to remove space garbage from near-Earth space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 31, 2016
Russia’s state-run corporation Roscosmos develops a project of a space cleaner – a satellite that will be able to “blow away” space junk.

By David Aragorn
From Water Power To EmDrive, The Quest To Put Tiny Satellites Into Orbit 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- September 18, 2016
The spacefaring nations of the world are competing with private companies to build an economy in orbit, colonize the moon, and exploit resources from passing asteroids, but to reach other planets something more is needed.

By David Aragorn
This Is the Last Thing Japan’s Lost Black Hole Satellite Saw Before It Died 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 8, 2016
Earlier this year, Japan launched a groundbreaking black-hole-monitoring satellite—only to lose control of it almost immediately under strange circumstances. Now, we finally can see what Hitomi did right before it died.

By David Aragorn
Russia And China Sign Space Alliance To Threaten U.S. Supremacy, Target Military Satellites 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 27, 2016
Russia and China signed a space alliance this week to protect their interstellar interests as the Roscosmos space agency threatened to publicly disclose the location of U.S. military satellites.

By David Aragorn