In a worst case scenario, tiny runaway pieces of debris could cause a catastrophic domino effect, with each new junk projectile leading to yet more destructive trash that could eventually pulverize everything in orbit.
Spain heads a mission where a pair of satellites move in tandem like expert tango dancers.
When cyber attacks lead to missile launches, a virtual war can become a real war real fast.
So while Brill may have made a mean beef stroganoff, she also expanded the frontiers of space, and the obituary argument aside, that's what she should be remembered for.
The only thing that might keep oil companies honest with their Arctic adventures are satellites, bloggers, and Google.
The U.S. is currently facing a satellite crisis. Maybe the Swiss can help clean it up.
Satellite footage or Starfox ripoff?
There are 46,000 different glaciers in the world's highest-peaking mountain range, and they span three million hectares. And scientists are pretty sure that they're melting. But it's hard to say exactly which ones, or how fast, because only 600 are b…
You probably can't tell from looking at it, but that little stream up there is the mighty Mississippi, a river once so grand that an explorer "is now famous":http://www.pkmeco.com/seinfeld/boyfrnd.htm for happening to run into it. In this "new NASA s…
The current rage in space technology is building very small satellites, tiny little guys that can do big work/research while weighing anywhere from 1 to 10 kg. The thing is, unless they're carrying human beings and all of their attendant life-support…
Somehow the world missed this: In December, on a beach in the country of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the above satellite washed up like a dead fish, and with about the same amount of fanfare. No one's claiming it but the satellite looks pretty R…
Supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act, and their corporate backers in the movie and recording industries, are on the war path. They're easily "out-spending":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/6/hollywood-s-last-stand-the-desperate-plot-behind-the-…
Like the Eames' "Powers of Ten":http://www.powersof10.com on meth (and slightly more educational), _The Known Universe_ takes you from the earth to the far reaches of time and space, mapping every known satellite, star and galaxy all the way out to "…
