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On Sept. 13, 2015, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory — a joint project of the European Space Agency and NASA — discovered its 3,000th “sun-grazing comet”, cementing its standing as the greatest comet finder of all time. Prior to the 1995 launch of the observatory, commonly known as SOHO, only a dozen or so […]
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How to get rid of a satellite after its retirement
September 1st, 2015 
Awake Goy The European Space Agency prepares satellite INTEGRAL to re-enter and disintegrate into the Earth’s atmosphere in 2029. Credit: ESA/D. Ducros Researchers at University of La Rioja (Spain) have developed a new method to eliminate artificial satellites in highly elliptical orbits when they finish their missions. The methodology, which reduces both cost and risk, has been […]
