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A hunk of space junk crashed through his roof in Florida. Who should pay to fix it?
KPBS San Diego· 5 days agoAlejandro Otero was out of town on vacation last month when his son called from their house in...
Japanese Spacecraft Chases Down Derelict Rocket
Futurism via Yahoo News· 1 day 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 AOL· 2 days agoBut a determined effort to pull a lump of junk out of the sky should occur in the next couple of years, the firm says. The issue of orbital debris and...
China Repairs Space Station Damaged by Debris Strike
Futurism via Yahoo News· 3 days agoLast month, astronauts aboard China's Tiangong space station conducted a lengthy spacewalk to repair a solar array damaged by debris. Now, state media...
NASA has a plan to clean up space junk—but is going green enough?
National Geographic· 5 days agoSpace Force, the rocket part they’re targeting appears to have itself been hit by smaller debris...
Nasa space junk and Russian satellite’s near collision was much closer than thought
The Independent via Yahoo News· 7 days agoCurrently, there are more than 36,000 pieces of such space junk in Earth orbit, including millions...
India aims to achieve 'debris-free' space missions by 2030
Space via Yahoo News· 6 days agoArtist's illustration of space junk orbiting Earth. In late March, the Indian Space Research...
A Chinese space station got hit by debris and astronauts scrambled to make emergency repairs
Quartz· 2 days agoChina’s space station crew carried out two spacewalks this past winter to repair the solar wings...
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...
Low-Earth Orbit Faces a Spiraling Debris Threat
Scientific American· 6 days agoOld rockets, decaying spacecraft and human operations in space leave behind orbital debris that increasingly threatens collisions, menacing a growing ...