Cold War tensions were high on May 23, 1967, when a colossal solar storm reportedly brought the United States and…
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At the foot of sheer Rocky Mountain slabs, on a secure federal campus in Boulder, Colorado, a woman seated alone in…
The eyes of the world are trained on the sun. The satellite known as SOHO had a projected lifespan of…
On February 8, 2022, 38 satellites en route to the SpaceX Starlink constellation lost altitude and fell into the atmosphere because…
Shawn Dahl was deep into a tabletop simulation about solar storms with other federal staff on May 9, 2024, when…
In early November 2024, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University’s Binar Space Program burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. That was…
APOGEE STAFF Space interests across Europe eagerly awaited the first liftoff of Ariane 6, hoping for an end to a…
As space threats grow in sophistication and number, so do efforts by the nations of the world to resist them.…
APOGEE STAFF At a time when space power was emerging as the difference between winning and losing on the battlefield, NATO…
APOGEE STAFF The harmful effects of direct-ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) weapons are undeniable: clouds of debris hurtling around the planet, posing…