A ground-based laser tracking system that could help to stem the accumulation of space debris is being developed in the UK. Devised by start-up company Lumi Space with the support of ESA and the UK ...
Space: The final frontier is fraught with danger... and ever since we started launching things into orbit, that danger has often been of our own doing. As Dr. Nilton Renno at the University of ...
This follows the failure of another satellite from the same series that may have been due to a meteoroid impact. Reading time 2 minutes A communications satellite broke apart into smaller fragments in ...
A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from weather tracking to broadband internet to national defense. A photo composite ...
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Space junk could soon delay flights like severe weather does
Airlines have long treated thunderstorms, snow and volcanic ash as the main reasons to slow or stop flights. Now a new hazard ...
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Space junk hits 130M pieces, and one just cracked a window in orbit
Low Earth orbit has quietly become one of the most crowded and hazardous environments humanity has ever created, with an ...
Specifically flagged by the UNEP are air pollution from launch emissions, spacecraft emissions in the stratosphere, as well ...
Cutting space-tracking efforts risks collisions — and U.S. leadership in commercializing outer space. September 1, 2025 at 7:00 a.m. EDTToday at 7:00 a.m. EDT ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Cheektowaga-based research and development firm CUBRC has pledged $250,000 to support University at Buffalo researcher John L. Crassidis’ efforts to track dangerous space debris. The ...
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