That said, Langbroek believes Kosmos 482’s orbital inclination of 51.7 degrees means it could reentry between the 52N and 52S latitudes (basically anywhere as far north as the United Kingdom and as ...

China said it is “gravely concerned” about President Donald Trump‘s ambitious Golden Dome project, and warned that it could ...

Sixty-two years ago today, on April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to venture beyond Earth’s atmosphere into space. The achievement rocked the world, not only ...

Perhaps ironically, considering the portrayal of space stations in Western media, virtually all of the space stations launched during the 20th century were Soviet ... the 1967 Outer Space Treaty ...

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That’s not to say that legal arguments can’t be made that the Russian missile test didn’t violate a portion of the cornerstone of international space law, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty ...

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