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Spacecraft captures first portrait of space junk with close-ups to come
Fox Weather via Yahoo News· 2 days agoFor the first time, a spacecraft is capturing photos of pieces of space junk in the void of space as...
Wow! Private space-junk probe snaps historic photo of discarded rocket in orbit
Space via Yahoo News· 6 days agoSuch work will help prove out technologies that future spacecraft can...advocates say. Rocket bodies...
Spacecraft approaches metal object zooming around Earth, snaps footage
Mashable· 5 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 ...
Japanese Spacecraft Chases Down Derelict Rocket
Futurism via Yahoo News· 5 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...
Japan comes face to face with its own space junk
BBC via Yahoo News· 6 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 ...
Insurers make record-breaking loss as space gets cramped
The Register· 19 hours agoThe space above the Earth is getting increasingly crowded as launches become more frequent and satellites are squeezed closer together. Space< ...
Japan’s Space Clean-Up Mission Leads to 15-Year-Old Rocket Debris
iTech Post· 3 days agoWell, a lot of them don't stray very far and remain in Earth's orbit, effectively cluttering up ...
Japan’s space junk cleaner closes in on its target
The Register· 3 days 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 ...
A satellite that was lost in space for 25 years has finally been found
Quartz· 17 hours agoThe Infra-Red Calibration Balloon (S73-7) satellite was part of the United States Air Force’s Space Test Program. After launching on April 10, 1974, a large reconnaissance ...
Daily Brief: Google isn’t done with layoffs
Quartz· 2 hours agoSome of the California-based jobs will relocate to its offices in India and Mexico. Meanwhile, Google wants immigration policies to change so it can...