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Spacecraft's impact changed asteroid's orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds

https://misryoum.com/us/today/spacecrafts-impact-changed-asteroids-orbit-around-the-sun/

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun, findings that could help divert a future incoming killer space rock, scientists reported Friday.It's...

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Spacecraft's impact changed asteroid's orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun, findings

US News Hub

Scientific Frontline Feb 16

A #computational modeling tool that incorporates #space debris collision probability directly into the earliest design phases of Earth-observation #satellite missions.
#Engineering #Spacecrafts #AerospaceEngineering #Astrodynamics #SpaceSustainability #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/eng02162601.html

New tool could reduce collision risk for Earth-observation satellites

Earth-observation satellites are increasingly relied upon to support efforts to meet the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals

Education & Knowledge Dec 25

First Spacecraft to Reach the Planets

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First Spacecraft to Reach the Planets

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Scientific Frontline Oct 7

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has developed technology to stiffen deployable structures on spacecraft, enabling #autonomous spacecraft docking operations.
#Technology #Spacecrafts #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/10/tech10072501.html

SwRI develops technology to deploy stabilized solar arrays, enabling spacecraft docking

Solar array deployments can be challenging to test, because testing occurs on the ground under atmospheric conditions.

Scientific Frontline Oct 6

Spirals of #solar wind can spin off larger solar #eruptions and disrupt Earth’s #magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to detect with our current single-location warning system
#SpaceWeather #SpaceScience #Spacecrafts #Astrophysics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/10/sw10062501.html

We need a solar sail probe to detect space tornadoes earlier, more accurately

A spacecraft that sails on light could provide new vantage point on solar eruptions that can disrupt modern electrical and navigation systems

Scientific Frontline Sep 24

A new era of #space exploration began this morning with the successful launch of NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission.
#SpaceWeather #Spacecrafts #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/09/sw09242501.html

NASA's IMAP Mission Successfully Launches to Study Our Solar System's Protective Bubble

IMAP will help us better understand how the space environment

Scientific Frontline Sep 21, 2025

Studying safer, cheaper #rocket and #missile #fuels that could reduce health and #environmental risks is the focus of a new $800,000 grant awarded to the University of Hawaiʻi
#Chemistry #Spacecrafts #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/09/chm09212501.html

Greener rocket fuels on the horizon

The work will focus on ethaline-based Deep Eutectic Propellants

SciPunk Apr 25, 2025

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

#startrek #firstcontact #90s #scifi #movies #spacecrafts #outerspace #space #spaceexploration #spaceship #1990s #aesthetic #spacetravel

Scientific Frontline Feb 9, 2025

This new component uses state-of-the-art #space technology to achieve an optimal balance of processing performance, resilience and resource utilization aboard the #satellite.
#Spacecrafts #SpaceForce #Technology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/02/scrt02092501.html

Lockheed Martin Matures Next Secure Communications Satellite Solution for U.S. Space Force with Major Design Milestone

MUOS is a network of orbiting satellites and relay ground stations that revolutionize secure communications for mobile military forces.

Scientific Frontline Apr 1, 2024

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will build, integrate and test a small demonstration #spacecraft as part of a $25.5 million #Space Mobility and Logistics (SML) prototyping project funded by the U.S. Space Force
#Spacecrafts #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2024/04/sc04012401.html

SwRI to build the spacecraft bus for in-space refueler servicer program

The spacecraft, called the Astroscale Prototype Servicer for Refueling