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Op-ed | Space Debris Management is even more urgent than Space Traffic Management Space Debris

Op-ed | Space Debris Management is even more urgent than Space Traffic Management

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…
bubmag
February 15, 2022
On a mission to track space junk Space Debris

On a mission to track space junk

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…
bubmag
February 14, 2022
U.S. intelligence wants to track currently undetectable orbital space debris Space Debris

U.S. intelligence wants to track currently undetectable orbital space debris

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…
bubmag
February 12, 2022
Indian Space Agency decommissions communication satellite Space Debris

Indian Space Agency decommissions communication satellite

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…
bubmag
February 9, 2022
US Space Force’s ‘Orbital Prime’ project aims to attack space debris by recycling or removing junk Space Debris

US Space Force’s ‘Orbital Prime’ project aims to attack space debris by recycling or removing junk

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,…
bubmag
February 6, 2022
Breakup of China’s Yunhai-1 (02) satellite linked to space debris collision Space Debris

Breakup of China’s Yunhai-1 (02) satellite linked to space debris collision

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…
bubmag
January 11, 2022
Space debris expert warns U.S. ‘woefully behind’ in efforts to clean up junk in orbit Space Debris

Space debris expert warns U.S. ‘woefully behind’ in efforts to clean up junk in orbit

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…
bubmag
January 7, 2022