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National Defense
July 2010
Stew Magnuson |
Taking Out the Trash: What Can Be Done About Space Debris? What goes up doesn't necessarily come down when it comes to manmade objects orbiting the planet.   |
Popular Mechanics
July 2009
Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
Collision Course: The Need for Better Space Junk Regulations Space is getting crowded, and the problem urgently needs attention from all spacefaring nations, lest we find ourselves earthbound under a shroud of orbiting trash. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2010
Sigrid Close |
Shooting Stars Can Shoot Down Satellites We don't know enough about meteoroids |
National Defense
June 2009
Stew Magnuson |
New Satellites to Keep Watch Over Space-Based Systems Two new satellites may be launched later this year that will help the U.S. defense community better understand what is happening to the multi-million dollar spacecraft it depends on. |
National Defense
February 2016
Stew Magnuson |
Planetary Defense: A New Hot Market With little fanfare, NASA in January opened up its planetary defense coordination office with a mandate to identify potential chunks of rock hurdling toward Earth and to stop them if possible. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2007
Carl Hoffman |
China's Space Threat: How Missiles Could Target U.S. Satellites The Chinese have successfully destroyed an old weather satellite in space, prompting other countries to respond. |
National Defense
June 2009
Stew Magnuson |
Air Force Faces Daunting Task to Determine What's Happening in Space The Air Force needs to monitor to have a complete picture of what is happening to the thousands of orbiting systems that circle the planet. |
National Defense
December 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Murky Picture of What's Happening in Space Worries Air Force Officials There is a deterrent value to space situational awareness that doesn't grab the attention it should. |
National Defense
July 2014
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
New Chinese Threats to U.S. Space Systems Worry Officials If China continues to make strides and develops weapons that reach farther, it could one day threaten key satellites in geosynchronous orbit. |
Geotimes
June 2005
Sara Pratt |
Revising the Asteroid Threat Scale Although scientists still assign Torino Impact Hazard Scale values via the same method, the language used to describe some levels has now changed to better inform the public -- and the media -- of the risk without unintentionally scaring people. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2012
Gregory L. Matloff |
Deflecting Asteroids A solar sail could use light to nudge an earthbound rock into an orbit we could live with |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2005
Bradley Carl Edwards |
A Hoist to the Heavens A space elevator could be the biggest thing to happen since the Stone Age, but can we build one? Many aspects are already being imagined and considered by forward-thinking engineers. |
Popular Mechanics
February 14, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
Satellite Shot Offers Navy Key Space Defense Trial: How It Works The Pentagon today announced that a Navy warship has been tasked with shooting down a failing United States spy satellite that, if left alone, was expected to hit Earth within weeks. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2006
Leslie Sabbagh |
Survival of the Oldest Payload Ever: The Stardust Spacecraft Returns to Earth After seven years and 2.9 billion miles, the Stardust spacecraft sent back to Earth the oldest material ever collected. |
Geotimes
July 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
X-ray Eyes in the Sky Scientists are working on the next generation of low-orbiting satellites that they hope will see far past the Earth's surface and into its interior, to better understand the structure and composition of Earth's crust, mantle and core. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2007
Jennifer Bogo |
NASA Mission Statement Q&A: Eyes on Earth Interview with a professor involved in a study to find out how Earth scientists view NASA's shifting priorities and how it may affect the study of the planet. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
William Stone |
Mining the Moon How the extraction of lunar hydrogen or ice could fuel humanity's expansion into space |
JavaWorld
December 2001
Jeff Friesen |
Trash talk, Part 1 One feature that distinguishes Java from other computer languages is its garbage collection abilities. In this article, This article introduces garbage collection and shows how Java's optional support for it affects your programs... |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2005
DeBlois et al. |
Star-Crossed Should the United States, or any nation for that matter, weaponize space? From orbiting lasers to metal rods that strike from the heavens, the potential to wage war from space raises startling possibilities---and serious problems. |
Wired
April 2001
Alex Markels |
The Next Wave Ships from Norway, rockets from Russia, techspertise from Seattle. Together, they slingshot satellites off a floating platform on the equator - and set the stage for a new kind of company, built on international brainpower... |
National Defense
February 2012
Eric Beidel |
DARPA Eyes Space Junk From the Ground The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, though, is wrapping up a demonstration with a new Space Surveillance Telescope that officials say will offer an unprecedented view of objects in space. |
National Defense
December 2004
Joe Pappalardo |
Air Force Mulling Over Programs to Kill, Protect Satellites in Space Warfare Much to the consternation of advocates who oppose the use of arms in space, the Air Force is speaking bluntly about its right and intention to explore the orbital deployment of weapons platforms. |
