Space Debris

The International Space Station (ISS) photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking, October 4, 2018.NASA/Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comWASHINGTON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - A group of U.S. senators on Tuesday asked the Biden administration to do more to…

MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer Nov. 30, 2021Updated: Dec. 3, 2021 2:54 a.m. FILE - This image made from NASA TV shows the international space station, seen from the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft Saturday, April 24, 2021. NASA called off a spacewalk Tuesday, Nov. 30, because of menacing space junk that could…

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter is on a mission to study the sun, but to get there it has to perform a series of flybys of other planets including Earth. This week, the Orbiter will perform its riskiest flyby, dipping through the smattering of space debris that surrounds Earth…

Expedition 66 crew members, from left to right: Pyotr Dubrov, Tom Marshburn, Anton Shkaplerov, Raja Chari, Mark Vande Hei, Kayla Barron, and Matthias Maurer. Credit: NASA The seven-person crew living on the International Space Station resumed normal operations Wednesday, two days after closing off parts of the complex as precaution…

Early in the morning of November 15, Moscow time, a Russian missile blasted a Russian satellite to smithereens. The destroyed satellite, Kosmos-1408, had been in orbit for nearly four decades. With at least 1,500 trackable pieces, and countless more too small for detection, the remains of Kosmos-1408 pose a threat…

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are forced inside docked capsules as incoming Russian space debris looms. Video / AP Russian officials on Tuesday rejected accusations that they endangered astronauts aboard the International Space Station by conducting a weapons test that created more than 1500 pieces of space junk. But…

Seven astronauts on board the International Space Station, including two Russians, have taken shelter after a Russian weapons test blew up the country's own satellite and created potentially dangerous space debris. Jonathan Vigliotti has more. Read More

Home News Spaceflight These radar images from the Numerica Corporation  show the Cosmos 1408 satellite before (left) and after an impact from a Russian anti-satellite test on Nov. 15, 2021. (Image credit: Numerica Corporation)Pieces of a shattered Soviet-era satellite are visible in new telescope images after its destruction by a…

A Russian anti-satellite weapon test this week demonstrated just how extreme the space junk threat is in orbit today. Why it matters: As space gets more crowded, events like a missile destroying a satellite, an explosion of a defunct spacecraft or a satellite-to-satellite attack could create debris that disrupts communications…

A "reckless and irresponsible" Russian weapons test has created more than 1,500 pieces of debris now endangering the seven crew aboard the International Space Station, US officials have said. Crew members were forced to take emergency measures on Monday after debris floated dangerously close by - and took cover in…