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orbital mechanics
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Rescuing satellites is harder than it looks – a growing space junk problem will make doing so more important
Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba, University of Florida A commercial robotic spacecraft called LINK launched on an emergency mission to…
Falling space debris poses an escalating risk as spacecraft get stronger and more heat resistant
Not all space debris burns up in the atmosphere before it makes it back to Earth. PaulFleet/iStock via…
A new comet was just discovered. Will it be visible in broad daylight?
The Great Comet of 1680 over Rotterdam. Lieve Verschuier/Rotterdam Museum Jonti Horner, University of Southern Queensland A newly…
How do you fire someone into the Sun?
SpaceX/flickr, CC BY-NC-SA Michael J. I. Brown, Monash University We live in changing times. While we once flippantly…
Orbital resonance − the striking gravitational dance done by planets with aligning orbits
Planets can gravitationally affect each other when their orbits line up. NASA/JPL-Caltech Chris Impey, University of Arizona Planets…