November 2019
UAE meteor and debris monitoring network
...sufficient to cause massive damage to a satellite or spacecraft. The ground map provided by the UFO software illustrates where meteors are observed, whether they were observed by a single station or more. The example in this figure represents a faint...
20 July 2018
Made-to-order meteor showers available soon say Japanese company
... shooting stars anytime, anywhere and even in any colour. Meteors, or shooting stars are little chunks of rock that streak... release 400 tiny balls on command to create an artificial meteor shower. The company are keeping tight-lipped on what the...
11 August 2016
Perseids Outburst Promises Spectacular Show on August 11th
...passes through the trail of the Comet Swift-Tuttle. The Perseids meteor shower will rain down at double the usual rate, in a ...first outburst of this magnitude since 2009. According to NASA meteor expert Bill Cooke, "This year, instead of seeing about...
27 November 2017
ASTROSCALE and SSTL join forces to get rid of space debris
... microsatellite will launch tomorrow (28 November) with the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos meteorology mission Meteor-M No2-1 at 14:41:46 (JST) from Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome and once operational, it will be tasked with monitoring the...
16 November 2015
The famous annual Leonid meteor shower peaks tonight
.... The Leonids first became famous in 1833, when a meteor shower of epic proportions was observed over North America. Since...making the Leonids all the more amazing to watch. The Leonid meteor shower will be most visible in the early, pre-dawn hours...
18 January 2019
Made-to-order meteor shower satellite now in space
...that glow brightly as they hurtle through the atmosphere, simulating a meteor shower. It hitched a ride on the small-size Epsilon-4 ... Lena Okajima, president of the company behind the artificial meteor showers, told the Jiji Press agency. "I feel like...
