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Spacecraft approaches metal object zooming around Earth, snaps footage
Mashable· 7 hours ago"Behold, the world’s first image of space debris captured through rendezvous and proximity...
Japanese Spacecraft Chases Down Derelict Rocket
Futurism via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoSpaced Out A Japanese spacecraft claims it has recently rendezvoused with a three-ton piece of rocket debris in a high-stakes flight, the BBC reports, in...
Wow! Private space-junk probe snaps historic photo of discarded rocket in orbit
Space via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoSuch work will help prove out technologies that future spacecraft can...advocates say. Rocket bodies...
Japan comes face to face with its own space junk
BBC via AOL· 1 day agoThe European Space Agency has counted 2,220 rocket bodies still in orbit...Future missions will use robotic arms to reach out and grabspace junk ...
India aims to achieve 'debris-free' space missions by 2030
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoSpent rocket stages and dead or malfunctioning satellites abandoned in their orbits around Earth...
Russian Space Junk Came Alarmingly Close to Smashing Into NASA Satellite
Gizmodo· 5 days agoIn late February, NASA’s TIMED spacecraft and the defunct Russian Cosmos 2221 nearly avoided...
China's space station was hit by space junk | Digital Trends
Digital Trends· 3 days agospace station have successfully completed repairs after a debris strike caused a partial power...
Low-Earth Orbit Faces a Spiraling Debris Threat
Scientific American· 5 days agoOld rockets, decaying spacecraft and human operations in space leave behind orbital debris that increasingly threatens collisions, menacing a growing ...
"Shocking": NASA and Russian satellite crash closer than scientists thought
Newsweek· 5 days ago"Had the two satellites collided, we would have seen significant debris generation — tiny shards...
Dying SpaceX rocket tears blood-red 'hole' in the sky over Texas — again
LiveScience· 4 days agoOn April 10, photographer Abdur Anwar spotted the bright light at around 3:15 a.m. EDT above Big...