The German Navy successfully tested a shipboard laser weapon designed to combat drones. For the first time ever, the German Armed Forces deployed a shipboard laser weapon designed to combat drones.
The ISS had to perform an avoidance maneuver from the expected path of a Russian space debris. The Progress 81 engines on the International Space Station (ISS) fired for 5 minutes and 5 seconds as part of a Pre-Determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver (PDAM) to move the complex further away from the expected path of a fragment from Russian Cosmos 1408 debris.
NASA captured a smiling sun days before Halloween strikes in. Is the Sun smiling? Is it happy to see us? Or is it flashing a pumpkin-like smile to greet us with a "Happy Halloween!"? In a cheesy encounter in space, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory was on its routine of observing the almighty Sun but today was positively special as the massive fiery star was caught smiling.