Space Debris

FILE PHOTO: EchoStar agreed to sell wireless spectrum licenses to SpaceX for its Starlink satellite network for about $17 billion. | Photo Credit: AP EchoStar on Monday agreed to sell wireless spectrum licenses to SpaceX for its Starlink satellite network for about $17 billion, after regulators scrutinized its underused assets…

Two of Donald Trump’s favorite pastimes (giving things new names and doing stuff that annoys people who didn’t vote for him) converged last week when the president signed an executive order renaming the Department of Defense the “Department of War.” His unsurprising rationale for doing so? “It used to be…

A Space Force spokesperson echoed these sentiments in a statement Friday. The spokesperson said the command’s mission “is to generate, present, sustain, and improve combat-ready intelligence, cyber, and space forces, while partnering across the US government, allies, and commercial agencies to project combat power in, from, and to space.” Defense…

An artist’s rendering of the Nusantara Lima satellite in gestationary Earth orbit. Graphic: Boeing Update Sept. 9, 9:45 p.m. EDT: SpaceX scrubbed the mission due to weather, targeting Wednesday, Sept. 10. Update Sept. 8, 9:30 p.m. EDT: SpaceX scrubbed the launch attempt, targeting Tuesday, Sept. 9. An Indonesian company is…

Residents rest by the riverside in Xiongjiang Town of Minqing County, southeast China's Fujian Province, Spet. 6, 2025. In recent years, Xiongjiang Town has been encouraging locals to renovate rural houses and utilize idle spaces to develop an ecological tourism industry by integrating characteristic agriculture, homestays, and rural sightseeing. This…

Space has a trash problem, with defunct satellites, rockets, and smaller broken bits orbiting the Earth at high speeds. The amount of space junk is only increasing, raising the risk of collision with active satellites and spacecrafts, according to Kazunori Takahashi, associate professor in the Graduate School of Engineering at…

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites soared into the blue sky over California on Saturday (Sept. 6) after emerging 20 seconds into its flight from a fog layer typical of its launch site. The booster lifted off at 2:06 p.m. EDT (1806 GMT or 11:06 a.m. PDT…

Swinburne and CSIRO researchers have successfully produced iron in Mars-like conditions, opening the door to metal production beyond Earth. The vision of establishing settlements on Mars has captured the imagination of billionaires, government space programs, and space exploration advocates. However, building such colonies requires vast amounts of material...Read More

Beyond the Solar System - With Dr. Alan Stern, PI for New Horizons - YouTube Watch On On Episode 176 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik are joined by Alan Stern to talk about what's next in deep space exploration. Dr. Stern, planetary scientist and…