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Wednesday 14 January 2015

Astronauts to stay in Russian segment of ISS overnight (NASA official)

Astronauts working aboard the International Space Station will stay overnight in the Russian segment of the station and will be able to return to the US segment only by noon on Thursday, the director of NASA’s manned space flights programs in Russia, Sean Fuller told TASS on Wednesday.
Earlier reports indicated a possibility of foreign astronauts’ return to the US segment of the station as early as Wednesday night.

Tuesday 2 April 2013

Space debris to be removed from Earth's orbit

Kerry Nock of Global Aerospace Corporation stated that the problem of space debris is becoming increasingly more acute every year. He said that recently one of our orbiting satellites was put out of order, and may happen again. He suggested that once nothing can be done about the debris, we should at least try to reduce its amount by removing broken equipment from the orbit.
Now debris mean mainly fragments of various satellites that no longer serve any useful purpose, but may damage the operating units, and in some cases threaten nuclear or toxic contamination when they fall on Earth.

According to the report published in October of 2009 by the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, approximately 300,000 such objects revolve around our planet.

Thursday 7 February 2013

2012 DA14: Too close for comfort

It's an asteroid, it's called 2012 DA14, it was only discovered last year, it is going to pass by Earth on Friday of next week (February 15) and it is going to set a record for a close miss of a space object. This monster is approaching at 4.8 miles per second. However, there is good news. It isn't going to hit... so they say.
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Federal'noe Kosmicheskoe Agentsvo) confirms that the object will fly near the Earth on February 16 MSK time, between approximately twenty to twenty-five miles from our planet (nearest point 17,200 miles). This is lower than some geostationary satellites and even closer than the upcoming near-impact with the Doomsday Asteroid, Apophis, scheduled for 2029.

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