This week’s destroyed Russian satellite created even more dangerous space debris

This week’s destroyed Russian satellite created even more dangerous space debris

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Post Views: 248 Early in the morning of November 15, Moscow time, a Russian missile blasted a Russian satellite to smithereens. The destroyed satellite, Kosmos-1408, had been in orbit for nearly four decades. With at least 1,500 trackable pieces, and countless more too small for detection, the remains of Kosmos-1408 pose a threat to other…

Meet the ‘Spy Stone,’ a Russian robot disguised as a rock

Meet the ‘Spy Stone,’ a Russian robot disguised as a rock

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Post Views: 200 Under lightly falling snow, a soldier sets a rock on the ground. A moment later the rock animates, extending first a periscope-like camera, and then lifting the whole of its rocky exterior to reveal a small set of tracks. With mobility now possible, the little robot wheels down the slight embankment of…

The ISS gets an extension to 2030 to wrap up unfinished business

The ISS gets an extension to 2030 to wrap up unfinished business

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Post Views: 329 Funding for the ISS was previously set to expire in 2024, as per an act of Congress in 2014. But NASA anticipates that it will officially fund the ISS through 2030, says Robyn Gatens, director of the ISS for space operations. The extension was unsurprising to Wendy Whitman Cobb, a professor of…