‘Space junk’ is clogging the atmosphere—and it’s going to make weather forecasts and internet access much worse
A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pileup—causing ripple effects across everything from ...
Satellites powered by solid metal could one day use space junk for fuel
Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...
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Scientists Say This 1 Thing Can Make Flying More Dangerous—With 'Catastrophic' Consequences
While airlines do all they can to make flying safe, there is one threat to aviation that even they can't do much about: space ...
Space junk is causing problems for satellites: “It’s trash. It’s garbage. And there are millions of pieces of it.”
As global warming continues, researchers are warning that there will be problems for satellites in low Earth orbit.
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How climate change could make Earth's space junk problem even worse
"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 years is having an effect on how we operate satellites ...
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Earth’s orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are making the problem worse.
All the excess carbon dioxide generated by people burning fossil fuels is shrinking the upper atmosphere, exacerbating the ...
Japan's space debris firm Astroscale to tie up with India's Digantara, Bellatrix Aerospace
Japan's Astroscale , a company specialised in removing orbital junk, has agreed with Bengaluru-based space companies ...
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Japanese satellite captures rare close-up of space junk in orbit
Japanese ADRAS-J satellite captures historic close-up of space debris, advancing efforts to tackle orbital junk ...
Space startup firm closer to removing debris from orbit
Astroscale Japan Inc. has announced that it has successfully approached a piece of orbital debris traveling at a high speed ...
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Satellites powered by solid metal could one day use space junk for fuel
About a fifth are inactive, simply orbiting as as space junk. Over the last couple of decades, hundreds of these dead satellites have collided to create millions of pieces of shrapnel. That ...