Space Debris

1/5 China launches the Chang'e-5 T1 in October 2014 on a Long March rocket. Photo by CNSA ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 21 (UPI) -- A mixup among leading astronomers about a rocket that will crash into the moon on March 4 has led to calls for better debris tracking of Deep…

by Darren McKnight and Chris Kunstadter — February 15, 2022 Credit: Adobe stock Space Traffic Management (STM) — the identification and deconfliction of potential mission-terminating collisions for operational spacecraft — has gained attention as the population of operational satellites in low Earth orbit has dramatically increased. Operational satellites and their…

Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 15 February 2021 On a mission to track space junk In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the space experts tracking orbital debris using graph database technology. We meet the startups taking very different approaches in trying to develop commercial…

by Sandra Erwin — February 12, 2022 Rendering of Earth orbiting space debris. Credit: NOAA The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity in a request for information asks for 'innovative approaches to detect and track currently undetectable orbital space debris' WASHINGTON — The U.S. intelligence community — which builds and operates…

Space debris has become a real concern for space exploration agencies worldwide. According to estimates, there are 7,200 artificial satellites in total orbiting Earth and 27,000 pieces of man-made debris caught in orbit. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully decommissioned a 14-year-old communication satellite, INSAT-4B, which provided services…

Home News Tech A new U.S. Space Force video "demands action" on space debris and asks the private sector for their help cleaning up the growing space mess. The video was released Jan. 5 on the Space Force's SpaceWERX website (its technology branch) to push a program called Orbital Prime,…

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News @andrew_andrew__ Jan 30, 2022, 4:04 pm EST | 1 min read A Falcon 9 rocket leaving Cape Canaveral in 2017. Nadezda Murmakova/Shutterstock.com You’ve heard about space junk, but it’s time to get familiar with moon junk. No, moon junk isn’t some weird rash; it’s the crap that humans will…

by Andrew Jones — January 11, 2022 Orbital debris illustration. Credit: ESA HELSINKI — U.S. space tracking has linked the breakup of Chinese satellite Yunhai-1 (02) to a collision with a small piece of debris from a Russian satellite launch, according to NASA. The Yunhai-1 (02) satellite was developed by…

by Sandra Erwin — January 6, 2022 LeoLabs' West Australian space radar conceptual field of view. Credit: LeoLabs Darren McKnight: The problem are not commercial megaconstellations but a failure to deal with existing debris WASHINGTON — The United States is a space superpower but is not doing as much as…