Japan's space debris firm Astroscale to tie up with India's Digantara, Bellatrix Aerospace
By Kantaro Komiya and Nivedita Bhattacharjee TOKYO/BENGALURU (Reuters) - Japan's Astroscale, a company specialised in ...
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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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 ...
How a University of Calgary satellite is helping the effort to dodge space debris
As Earth's orbit becomes populated with more crafts and devices, researchers are looking for ways to detect and track ...
‘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 ...
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Earth’s orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are making the problem worse.
But space is getting crowded. Ever since the Space Age dawned in the late 1950s, humans have been filling the skies with trash. The accumulation of dead satellites, chunks of old rockets ...
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Space debris is falling from the skies. We need to tackle this growing danger
The quest to conquer Earth’s space junk problem These events are not isolated. Across the world, from Texas to Saudi Arabia, from Cape Town to the Amazon rainforest, objects launched into low ...
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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 ...
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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, the upper atmosphere will cool and become less dense, reducing the force which usually pulls space debris back to Earth and cluttering the orbit. MIT researchers ...
Arizona radar site detecting satellite debris in space
LeoLabs, a California-based company, built a radar in eastern Arizona that monitors objects in space, specifically in the ...
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How global warming could threaten satellites, according to new study
Space junk is a "persistent hazard," scientists say. Climate change could threaten the future use of satellites and significantly reduce the number of spacecraft that can safety orbit Earth ...
Astronauts watch SpaceX's Starship explode in space during flight test
Astronauts orbiting 250 miles above Earth got a front-row seat to destruction on Thursday. During a SpaceX flight test of ...