At least China had enough integity to invest in their own space technology.
We need a new one. A rotating space station that produces it's own gravity.
By Ed Browne
NASA was forced to abandon a planned five minute boost test (click here) on the International Space Station (ISS) after just five seconds, the reason for which is unclear.
The failure of the planned maneuver has propmpted an investigation by NASA and U.S. aerospace and defense firm Northrop Grumman.
NASA is currently testing its ability to use a U.S.-built cargo ship to complete orbital boosts of the ISS—a maneuver usually carried out with Russian technology....
Today is the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere of Earth. It is time to secure Europe's energy needs before they need it.
“Reckless,” “dangerous,” “destabilising” is Russia's middle name no matter the issue.
By Vishwam Sankaran
In November, (click here) missile test prompted ISS crew to take emergency shelter amid fear of collision with debris
The International Space Station had to conduct an avoidance maneuveur on Thursday to avoid a piece of space debris from Russia’s missile tests in November that took out one of their own satellites.
Nasa said the space station’s thrusters fired for about 5 minutes in a Pre-Determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver (PDAM) on Thursday to swerve away from the predicted track of a fragment of “Russian Cosmos 1408 debris.”
While the crew was “never in any danger,” and the maneuver did not impact astronauts’ routine operations, the American space agency said the fragments could have passed within about half a mile (0.8km) from the station.
The shrapnels are from a weapons test that Russia conducted in November 2021 in which it took out an old defunct Soviet-era satellite, launching a cloud of over 1,500 pieces of debris through space.
Following the missile test, both US astronauts and Russia’s own cosmonauts aboard the ISS were forced to take emergency shelter in the orbiting laboratory amid fear of collision with the debris cloud.
Nasa Administrator Bill Nelson had condemned the anti-satellite weapons test, calling it a “reckless,” “dangerous,” “destabilising” action....
