The extremely precise first trajectory correction performed during the journey of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, along with other fuel savings, is expected to more than double the mission’s potential operational lifetime. As Jamie Dunn, director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, noted, thanks to flawless planning by the orbital dynamics […]

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Are the United States really planning to deploy weapons in orbit around Earth? What does the future hold? Let’s take a closer look. Satellites, anti-satellite systems, lasers, electronic warfare, and modern militaries’ dependence on orbital infrastructure. This is how the Pentagon sees the future of warfare. Space is no longer a neutral backdrop to wars on […]

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The European Space Agency is determined to move ahead decisively and independently with its Venus mission after NASA officials effectively acknowledged that they would be unable to fulfill their commitments to provide the U.S.-built onboard radar instrument, according to the project’s lead scientist. The European spacecraft, known as Envision, will conduct detailed scans of Venus’s […]

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