NASA Monitors Perseids to Improve Meteor Forecasting
December 13, 2016
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The Perseid meteor shower, which peaks in August of each year, was twice as active in 2016 compared to other years. The Perseids are always a major shower and move at very high speeds, so monitoring is essential for the safety of NASA’s spacecraft as there is great potential for high-energy impacts. Increases in activity, like that seen this year, add additional mission risks.
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October Issue of ODQN Now Available
November 04, 2016
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The October issue of
Orbital Debris Quarterly News is now available, including articles on ASTRO-H spacecraft fragments during payload checkout operations, the new SOZ breakup, the disposal of GOES-3 and more.
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Project Review: MMOD Impacts Found on a Returned ISS Cover
August 01, 2016
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The July 2016 edition of Orbital Debris Quarterly News included an article on Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris impacts on an International Space Station cover. Continue reading for the full article.
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Update: Orbital Debris Program Office to Procure Titan Transtage for Research
June 07, 2016
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NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office is acquiring a Titan Transtage from the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group , commonly known as “The Boneyard,” at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, to conduct spectrographic inspections to better understand these historic spacecraft.
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MEO Looks to Identify Parent Body of Meteor Shower
February 09, 2016
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Not much is known about the Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, and NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office (MEO) is working to rectify that.
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NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office Publishes Two Manuals
January 11, 2016
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NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office recently released two Technical Manuals (TMs): NASA Meteoroid Engineering Model Release 2.0 (TM-2015-218214) and Lunar Impact Flash Locations (TM-2015-218213).
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Two More Collision Avoidance Maneuvers for the International Space Station
November 23, 2015
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The October 2015 issue of Orbital Debris Quarterly News is now available and features the article "Two More Collision Avoidance Maneuvers for the International Space Station." Continue reading for the full article.
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Dust Study Explored Impact of Meteoroids on Solar Probe Plus Project
August 20, 2015
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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, with the support of NASA’s Meteoroids Environments Office, conducted a dust study as a part of NASA’s Solar Probe Plus mission to explore the sun’s outer atmosphere.
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New Issue of Orbital Debris Quarterly News
July 23, 2015
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See the July issue of Orbital Debris Quarterly News.
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