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Over 1,000 pounds of space debris fell to Earth last week — here’s where it landed
A metal fragment believed to have come from a rocket has returned to Earth, falling in an African country last week. The ...
What Is Space Junk, and What Can Be Done About It?
This is how debris finds itself languishing in space—and what some organizations are doing to mitigate the problem.
Photos show the 1,000 pounds of space debris that crash landed in Kenya. It's unclear who it belongs to.
A large metallic ring from space crash-landed in Kenya on New Year's Day. Officials want to determine its origins and hold ...
A Half-Ton Piece of Space Junk Falls Onto a Village in Kenya
No one was hurt by the object, believed to be part of a launch rocket. Experts say the frequency of such incidents is ...
Giant 1,100-pound space debris crashes down just outside small village in Africa
A massive piece of space junk crashed down into a small village in Kenya which local officials say came from a rocket ...
What is the Kessler Syndrome? How space junk has become an orbital threat
All of this adds up to the likelihood, the ESA warns, that a theoretical scenario known as the Kessler Syndrome could become ...
Space debris weighing over 1,000 pounds reportedly crashes into village in Kenya
Officials said they were investigating fragments of metal, believed to be from a rocket, that crashed into a village in the ...
Massive ‘space object’ fragment crashes into remote village in Kenya
A huge, red-hot object fell from the sky into a Kenyan village on Monday afternoon according to local residents cited by the ...
Earth's orbit is so crowded that space traffic controllers issue more than 1,000 collision warnings per day
Satellites and chunks of space junk come close to colliding on a regular basis. The situation could get dangerously out of ...
What is ‘Kessler Syndrome’ — and why do some scientists think the space disaster scenario has already started?
The concept known as “Kessler Syndrome” was proposed nearly five decades ago. Experts weigh in on whether the space-based disaster scenario is already unfolding.
Kenya investigating fallen space debris
Kenyan officials said Wednesday they were investigating fragments of metal, believed to be from a rocket, that crashed into a ...
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What Is Space Junk, and What Can Be Done About It?
Is the accumulation of space junk even a problem ... and Atmospheric Administration's NOAA-19 continues to trot around Earth despite its mission's demise in 2016. As with satellites, the upper ...