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Low-Earth Orbit Faces a Spiraling Debris Threat
Scientific American· 4 days agoOld rockets, decaying spacecraft and human operations in space leave behind orbital debris that increasingly threatens collisions, menacing a growing ...
Waste in space: Why junk in Earth orbit is becoming a huge problem
USA Today· 1 week agoIn January 2021, astronauts at the International Space Station pitched a pallet of used lithium-ion...
Space: Space Junk Analytics
Strategy Page· 1 week agoAugust 25, 2020: Over the last few years, a solution has evolved for the growing problem with space debris and the number of satellites damaged or destroyed ...
Object that crashed into Florida home came from space station, NASA confirms
NBC Universal via AOL· 1 week agoTens of thousands of pieces of such junk — and millions more smaller bits of orbital debris —...
The Space Force Is About to Play Space Wars in Earth Orbit
Gizmodo· 2 weeks agoThe U.S. Space Force is partnering with two companies to launch a demonstration mission of how the...
A hunk of space junk crashed through his roof in Florida. Who should pay to fix it?
NPR· 3 days agoIn 1978, a Soviet satellite, Kosmos 954, "disintegrated over Canada and scattered radioactive fuel...
NASA: That metal chunk that hit a Florida home was from the ISS
Astronomy Magazine· 7 days agoA home security camera recorded the crash at 2:34 pm local time (19:34 UTC) on March 8; five minutes...