Space debris News

We are increasingly reliant upon satellite communication. However, as satellites break-up the resultant debris causes risks to other functioning satellites and poses a risk to spacecraft. As space junk accumulates, so too does the problem.

Two decades-old inactive satellites currently in low Earth orbit are in danger of possibly colliding on Wednesday evening above the U.S., according to space debris tracking service LeoLabs, raising concerns over the "Kessler Effect."

A self-destructing robot will be sent into orbit on the world's first space cleanup mission, European scientists announced Monday, a fresh approach to fixing up the galaxy's junk graveyard.

Paris - The Canadian government’s contracting arm is backing a proposed new satellite system that will use big data analytics to provide commercially available data about the Earth and its orbit amid growing concerns about the risks posed by space debris.

Tokyo - Astroscale Holdings Inc. is preparing to rendezvous with, capture and dock a test satellite early next year to show how its technology can help clear orbiting junk, Miki Ito, 36, general manager of Astroscale's Japan unit, said in an interview.

A British-led mission successfully tested a harpoon that's designed to spear space junk and capture it in orbit for the first time. Airbus carried out the successful experiment as part of the RemoveDebris project.

The human race has turned out to be rather messy, filling our ocean's with plastic pieces and our roads with trash. But space has become our new trash heap, with over 750,000 pieces of space junk one centimeter or larger, circling the Earth.

Late July is the beginning of a trifecta of spectacular, heavenly fireworks shows. Beginning with the Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Capricornids, peaking tonight, they are but the warm-up act for the big show in August, the Perseid meteor showers.

A bunch of shepherds made a fascinating discovery while out tending their sheep in southeastern Spain. A strange object had apparently fallen from the sky into a field.

We may have a new meteor shower this week. It will be something that we have never seen before if we get to see it at all. Scientists do not even know if it will occur at all.

Geneva - Swiss scientists are sick and tired of the mess up in space orbiting the planet. This is why they are launching a "janitor satellite" called CleanSpace One, which is designed to help clean up space from all of the debris and junk.

A large defunct satellite is about to crash to earth during the next few weeks, but nobody knows exactly when or where. What are the odds of space junk hitting a person or a building?

New York - An international group has briefly warned the United Nations that orbital space debris could make space missions and the general use of space quite difficult in the future and the geopolitical situation could make the solution even harder.

How Not To Deal With A Problem: Stick hundreds of billions of dollars worth of satellites in space, and don’t bother to figure out how to keep them safe. Orbiting garbage missed the International Space Station this week, no thanks to anyone.