A spacecraft has carefully approached and imaged a large hunk of metal orbiting Earth — a step in tackling humanity's mounting space junk woes. The delicate space mission, undertaken by the Japanese ...
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Almost half the stuff in orbit around Earth can be classified as space junk, and the problem is only going to get worse as launches and orbital infrastructure increase. Using data from the U.S. Space ...
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PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Thursday, officials from across the region cut the ribbon on the first of two new advanced waste sorting systems that will overhaul the way waste is disposed of on the ...
SpaceX’s Starlink division confirmed yesterday that it lost contact with a satellite on Sunday and is trying to locate space debris that might have been produced by… whatever happened there. “LeoLabs ...
Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the most powerful space telescope ever made. Astronomers now call them little red ...
An illustration of how SpaceX uses star tracker data from its Starlink satellite to identify other objects in orbit and calculate their orbits. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX has disrupted the launch business ...
The newly commissioned Vera C. Rubin Observatory has issued 800,000 astronomy alerts in just one night — a staggering number of nightly discoveries that is expected to grow nearly tenfold by the end ...
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