In December 1998, NASA launched the Mars Climate Orbiter. Its mission was to report data on the Martian atmosphere and climate...

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The time-travelling astronaut: Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev holds the record for time spent in orbit around the Earth...

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The length of the day has not been constant throughout the Earth’s history. For the last 2,700 years, the length of a day has...

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An asteroid passing close to Earth may have its orbit deflected in such a way as to cause a collision in the future; regions...

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Some satellites are deliberately spun about an axis perpendicular to their orbital plane in order to prevent their position...

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A paper has considered whether it is possible to jump into orbit on a body of small mass, such as Mars’s moon Deimos. The...

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