Space Debris

After 5 Years of Construction, 'Space Fence' Finally Declared Operational (spacenews.com) Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday March 29, 2020 @03:59PM from the Space-Force-space-fence dept. An anonymous reader quotes Space News: The space surveillance radar site known as the Space Fence is ready for use after five years in construction, the…

United States Space Force officials formally declared initial operational capability and operational acceptance of the Space Fence radar system, located on Kwajalein Island in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, March 27, 2020. Space Fence provides significantly improved space surveillance capabilities to detect and track orbiting objects such as commercial…

Just because it's been a few months since we last visited HBO and Damon Lindelof's pseudo-sequel/"remix" of Dave Gibbons/ He-Who-Doesn't-Want-To-Be-Named's classic comic book series Watchmen doesn't mean the cast has stopped thinking about us.In this time of social distancing and self-quarantining caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Regina King, Tim Blake…

Superconductivity in nature is extremely rare on Earth, but that might not be the case for the rest of the universe. March 24, 2020 A group of scientists has discovered a number of superconducting materials inside two different meteorites. These two are home to superconductive grains, embedded deep inside them. This discovery…

Representative image of a gigantic asteroid hurtling through space, similar to asteroid 1998 OR2. Despite its badging as a potential hazard, asteroid 1998 OR2 poses very little to absolutely no threat to our planet. Here's why. News18.com Last Updated: March 24, 2020, 5:55 PM IST Share this: Last weekend, the…

One thing astronauts have to be good at: living in confined spaces for long periods of time. Here are some tips for all who find yourself in a similar scenario. Nearly 20 years successfully living on the International Space Station and more than 50 flying in space did not happen…

A fragment of the Mundrabilla meteorite. (James Wampler) PETER DOCKRILL 24 MARCH 2020 Scientists have found naturally occurring superconducting materials in extraterrestrial objects for the first time, discovering superconductive grains embedded inside two distinct meteorites that crash-landed on Earth. The discovery is just the latest to show that meteorites are…

AI Helping to commercialize space Getty Even before modern computers became a reality, science fiction gave us a plethora of examples of artificial intelligence and smart robots in the context of outer space. From Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey and the computer on Star Trek to C3PO and R2D2…

Panorama of the Main Control Room at ESOC, ESA's European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany, taken in 2012. Credit: ESA/J. Mai, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Responsible for spacecraft orbiting Earth, the Sun and exploring the Solar System, teams at ESA's ESOC mission control deal with in-flight challenges every day, from…

Xbox (LINK)Welcome to the pioneer program! In this upbeat & colourful, co-op adventure game you play as the newest recruit to kindred aerospace. Dropped onto an Uncharted planet with little equipment and no real plan, you must explore, catalogue alien flora and fauna and determine if this planet is fit…