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Nasa denounces China over ‘irresponsible standards’ after its rocket disintegrates over Indian Ocean Space Debris

Nasa denounces China over ‘irresponsible standards’ after its rocket disintegrates over Indian Ocean

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May 9, 2021
A giant piece of space junk is hurtling towards Earth. Here’s how worried you should be Space Debris

A giant piece of space junk is hurtling towards Earth. Here’s how worried you should be

The Long March-5B Y2 rocket carrying the core module of China's space station, Tianhe, blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on April 29. Video / CNSA A large piece of space debris, possibly weighing several tonnes, is currently on an uncontrolled reentry phase (that's space speak for "out…
bubmag
May 5, 2021
Adaptive Optics Branches Out Space Debris

Adaptive Optics Branches Out

For astronomers, it’s a magical moment: you’re staring at a monitor, and a blurry image of a cosmological object sharpens up, revealing new details. We call this “closing the loop,” a reference to the adaptive optics loop, a tool that enables telescopes to correct for haziness caused by turbulence in…
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April 30, 2021
It’s not how big your laser is, it’s how you use it. Space law is an important part of the fight against space debris. Space Debris

It’s not how big your laser is, it’s how you use it. Space law is an important part of the fight against space debris.

Home News Tech (Image credit: ESA) This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Steven Freeland, Professorial Fellow, Bond University / Emeritus Professor of International Law, Western Sydney University, Western Sydney University Annie Handmer, PhD candidate, School of History and Philosophy…
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April 27, 2021
Time to clean up the space junk Space Debris

Time to clean up the space junk

Companies and governments around the world are racing to figure out how to clean up human-made junk that is cluttering space. Why it matters: Trackers are seeing more and more close calls between satellites, as companies work to deploy constellations of hundreds to thousands of small spacecraft, adding to fears…
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April 27, 2021
A piece of space junk zipped by SpaceX’s Dragon capsule on its way to the space station Space Debris

A piece of space junk zipped by SpaceX’s Dragon capsule on its way to the space station

Home News Spaceflight The astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-2 mission for NASA had a brief moment of suspense after their spectacular launch on Friday (April 23) when a piece of space debris passed unexpectedly close by their Crew Dragon capsule.  The space junk encounter, called a conjunction, occurred at 1:43 p.m.…
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April 24, 2021