At the time of writing, Skylab is the only space station to have ever been used solely by the United States of America. Skylab weighed around 90,610 kilograms, with The Apollo command and service module, also known as ‘CSM’, which was attached to the space station, weighing in at 14,000 kilograms. Skylab had some truly …
All materials are subjected to extreme forces in orbit, enabling only the most sturdy items to withstand it. Inspection processes for space materials are critical to guarantee that the equipment that utilizes them will last in the harshest circumstances known to humankind, with no repair facility at hand. Lacking testing attempts to place satellites into …
Ever since the Soviet Union launched the first-ever space satellite, named Sputnik 1, into the atmosphere way back in 1957, the area of space surrounding our earth has become increasingly populated. There are already over 3,000 dead satellites and missile parts floating through space, as well as up to 900,000 fragments of space debris varying …
There have been many countries that have aspired to and achieved spaceflight, the ever-changing nature of human politics and the advance of other nations towards this goal has made it much more difficult to keep track of which countries have launched satellites, as well as others who may have launched satellites such as private businesses …
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Space, the final frontier… – James Tiberius KirkIn the sixty and half decades since Sputnik 1 first orbited the Earth, we’ve left a lot of debris up in space. And each and every chunk of junk that we’ve casually abandoned in our race to go higher, further, and faster than we’ve ever been, has to …
You may think that people have always somewhat known that the earth spins. After all, people have been using stars to navigate and tell the time for thousands of years, and people have seen the plants in our solar system move across the sky for just as long. But many ancient cultures believe that the …
The sun has been an object of worship and fascination for tens of thousands of years, and there is some wisdom to this, as without it life simply could not exist.The sun is what gives our planet the temperatures and light we need to sustain the plants and other important creatures that make up all …
As technology has become more advanced, scientists have been able to discover galaxies that stretch further back towards the beginning of the universe and the Big Bang. We have all wondered how old the universe is or even how big it is. Well scientists take these questions seriously and spend their lives trying to find out …
Here’s the thing, science has told us that the universe is 13.8 billion years old. However, if the universe is 13.8 billion years old then we ask, how can a star be more than 14 billion years old? Well, here we are going to look at the oldest star that we can see and talk …
We’ve all seen pictures of the Internation Space Station. In comparison to the Earth, it looks tiny! But how big is it actually?The size of the Internation Space station actually depends on when you ask. As an average, the station is around the size of a football field when including its solar arrays, however, this …
