Robinsonsaid the extra spacewalk effectively adds a full day to Discovery's mission,with undocking now coming on Tuesday and landing on Dec. 22. The shuttleastronauts will still perform a late inspection of Discovery's heat shield toseek out any signs of damage from micrometeorites or other orb...
The first element of the ISS — the Russian Zarya module — flew to space in 1998. Many other elements of the space station are in their second or third decades of operation. While recentbatteryandsolar panelreplacements have helped keep the station healthy, the U.S. Congress is among the ...
The space environment has been observed in JAXA so that the JAXA satellites should not cause anomalies and the astronauts should not experience the damage from the space radiation environment that repeats an increase and a decrease [1]. The following seven projects are now operating in JAXA. In...
NASA says there are millions of pieces of space debris orbiting Earth, most of them too small to be tracked. But traveling at speeds of up to 17,500 mph, even the smallest fragments have the potential to cause serious damage to objects that appear in their path. The space agenc...
The battery used is gradually charged with the help of charge controller thereby protecting the battery from damage, enhancing its life cycle and monitoring the battery status. A microcontroller PIC16F877 is used for all the switching and controlling functions of the whole system. The lighting ...