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☆ Video of SpaceX's Starship reentry shows the ultra-hot plasma plummet back to Earth like never before
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

SpaceX's Starship captured a stunning video of its reentry as it fell back to Earth. It's the best and clearest video footage yet of a spacecraft enduring the fiery fall back to Earth. AdvertisementSpaceX's Starship captured a stunning video of its reentry into Earth's atmosphere as it finished its first successful flight through space on Thursday. SpaceX aired the footage live on its webcast on X, showing thick ultra-heated plasma lashing Starship and turning parts of the spacecraft red-hot. AdvertisementAn astronaut's view of what it looks like inside a spacecraft that's plummeting to Earth at breakneck speed.

Persons: SpaceX's, Starship's, —, to4UOF2Kpd — Elon, reentries, Jonathan McDowell, Kate Tice Organizations: Service, SpaceX, NASA, YouTube, Super

☆ Photos show European satellite tumbling to its fiery doom after a first-of-a-kind maneuver that prevented a lot of space trash and falling debris on Earth
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | Maiya Focht | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

ESA said the maneuver reduced the risk of dangerous space debris impact and space junk collision. ESA took Aeolus's end as an opportunity to try a first-of-a-kind reentry maneuver called an "assisted reentry," ESA said in a statement Tuesday. Map showing Aeolus satellite's location as it inched closer to Earth where it ultimately burned up over Antarctica. This means there's more risk of satellites crashing into one another, and that space debris flying to inhabited places on Earth. Aeolus's assisted reentry was part of that mission to make satellite reentry safer.

Persons: Aeolus, reentries, Aeolus's, Tommaso Parrinello Organizations: European Space Agency, ESA, Service, Space Agency, Fraunhofer, NASA Locations: Wall, Silicon, Antarctica, Texas

The Biden administration is seeking additional funding for the Federal Aviation Administration, funds that aim to boost hiring of air traffic controllers and facilitate other improvements to manage increasingly congested airspace. The White House on Thursday proposed $16.5 billion for the agency, up from the $15.2 billion the FAA received in fiscal 2023. Airlines and the Transportation Department have sparred over causes of flight disruptions, with some company executives blaming a shortfall of air traffic controllers. Last year, the FAA managed airspace for a record 92 space missions – a total that includes rocket launches and spacecraft reentries, which it expects to top in 2023. Many of those missions launched from Florida, a state which has seen more and more commercial air traffic as well.

That number includes both rocket launches and capsule reentries, and has been steadily climbing. A Falcon Heavy rocket launches the USSF-67 mission on January 15, 2023 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "Air space is going to be a critical, critical issue," Isom said, calling on new industries to contribute to the cost of air traffic control. A graph of FAA-licensed or permitted commercial space launches (excludes launches licensed by other U.S. government agencies, such as NASA or the Department of Defense). Together they create a moving target for space launches and the commercial airlines eyeing the same air space.

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