Day: February 28, 2024

Ground-based radar systems could have a unique role to play in planetary defense, helping humanity protect Earth by spotting asteroids and comets on potentially devasting collision courses with our planet. This was the conclusion reached by National Academies in their 2023-2032 Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey. Currently, only one radar system on Earth concentrates …

Radar Could Help Scientists Find Potentially Threatening Asteroids. Read More »

The European Space Agency has released images showing some of the final orbits experienced by a European satellite before its fiery reintroduction to Earth’s atmosphere. The school-bus-sized European Remote Sensing (ERS-2) satellite reentered our planet’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean on Feb. 21, almost 29 years after its launch in April 1995. The Tracking and …

Radar Images Reveal Damage On Europe’s Doomed ERS-2 Satellite During Final Orbits. Read More »