October 2023
Remote sensing by satellite - People’s Republic of China
... Jianbing 16. Yaogan 30 triplet of satellites. About the author Henk Smid is a retired chief officer of the Royal Netherlands Air Force, space analyst and author of numerous space related articles (https://smid.one). He has been an advisor to several...
29 March 2019
NASA's Mars helicopter completes flight tests
...have been important milestones in the life of any vehicle designed for air travel. After all, it's one thing to design an aircraft ...July 2020 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. It is expected to reach Mars in ...
March 2016
Space debris conundrum for international law makers
... the Russian satellite Cosmos-2251; in September 2013, the US Air Force reported the Cubesat had passed less than 75 m away from... Space Treaty), adopted on 19 December 1966 and entered into force on 10 October 1967, Resolution 2222(XXI) of the United...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
... interns, and a guest speaker/exhibitor/judge at the Cities in Space competition. Jeff served five years in the US Air Force and is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, the National Space Society and the Space Frontier...
October 2019
Electric orbit raising and space weather
...movement of the charged particles becomes constrained by electromagnetic forces that arise from their interaction with the Earth’s ..., objects in space are tracked by the United States Air Force and, except for classified missions, data is released and...
15 September 2021
SpaceX ready to launch private, all-civilian crew into Earth orbit
... late Sally Ride, who became the first American woman in space in 1983 at age 32. Chris Sembroski, 42, is a former US Air Force employee who now works in the aviation industry. As a college student, Sembroski volunteered with ProSpace, a grassroots...
