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Japan’s space junk cleaner closes in on its target
The Register· 6 hours agoAsia In Brief Japan's effort to start a business disposing of space junk is off to a promising start, after the ADRAS-J satellite spotted its first target ...
Spacecraft approaches metal object zooming around Earth, snaps footage
Mashable· 2 days ago"Behold, the world’s first image of space debris captured through rendezvous and proximity operations during our ADRAS-J mission." The mission is part of the Japan Aerospace ...
Wow! Private space-junk probe snaps historic photo of discarded rocket in orbit
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoSuch work will help prove out technologies that future spacecraft can...advocates say. Rocket bodies...
Japanese Spacecraft Chases Down Derelict Rocket
Futurism via Yahoo News· 2 days 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...
Russian Space Junk Came Alarmingly Close to Smashing Into NASA Satellite
Gizmodo· 7 days agoIn late February, NASA’s TIMED spacecraft and the defunct Russian Cosmos 2221 nearly avoided...
Japan comes face to face with its own space junk
BBC via AOL· 3 days 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· 6 days agoSpent rocket stages and dead or malfunctioning satellites abandoned in their orbits around Earth...
China's space station was hit by space junk | Digital Trends
Digital Trends· 4 days agospace station have successfully completed repairs after a debris strike caused a partial power...
Dying SpaceX rocket tears blood-red 'hole' in the sky over Texas — again
LiveScience· 6 days agoOn April 10, photographer Abdur Anwar spotted the bright light at around 3:15 a.m. EDT above Big...
Low-Earth Orbit Faces a Spiraling Debris Threat
Scientific American· 7 days agoOld rockets, decaying spacecraft and human operations in space leave behind orbital debris that increasingly threatens collisions, menacing a growing ...