16 December 2020
Russian anti-satellite missile test troubles US Space Command
... low Earth orbit (LEO) and the test followed the country's on-orbit test manoeuvres of two satellites (COSMOS 2542 and COSMOS 2543) that "exhibited characteristics of a space weapon”, according to a US Space Command Statement. In February, the Space...
06 August 2021
Surprising new finds as ASKAP surveys the skies
... they were seeing two 'host' galaxies, deep in the cosmos. “In their centers are two supermassive black holes, squirting out... uncover the nature of dark energy, records data from the cosmos in visible light, whereas ASKAP is designed to look at much...
09 October 2019
This year's Physics Nobel Prize winners
... Prize in Physics 2019 “for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos” with one half to James Peebles, Princeton University, USA “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology” and the...
31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
..."Spitzer has taught us about entirely new aspects of the cosmos and taken us many steps further in understanding how the universe...a deeper and more far-reaching view of the infrared cosmos than its predecessors. Above Earth's atmosphere, Spitzer could...
July 2014
Beware the situation: how JSpOC tracks space debris
... spacecraft known as Fengyun 1C. Two years later, there was a collision between two spacecraft known as Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251. And in 2012 the upper stage of a Russian BRIZ-M rocket exploded. Together, these events were a watershed...
March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
... created by just two events: an anti-satellite test conducted by China in 2007, and the 2009 Iridium-Cosmos collision between a functioning U.S. telecommunications satellite and an inactive Russian military satellite. The consequences of those two...
