Space Debris

ESA has signed an €86 million contract with an industrial team led by Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA to purchase a unique service: the first removal of an item of space debris from orbit. As a result, in 2025, ClearSpace will launch the first active debris removal mission, ClearSpace-1, which will…

by Andrew Parsonson — December 2, 2020 The European Space Agency has signed an 86 million euro contract to purchase the world's first removal of active space debris. Credit: ClearSpace SA JOHANNESBURG — The European Space Agency (ESA) has finalized an 86 million euro ($104 million) contract with Swiss start-up…

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A piece of space debris fell to Earth over Japan on Sunday morning, lighting up the night sky with a brilliant flash. The fireball was only visible for a brief moment or two, but it caught the eye of many onlookers. The fireball, or bolide, was likely totally destroyed during…

The European Space Agency has formalised its plan to dispose of space junk by using an orbiting claw to grab an old bit of rocket before dragging both the claw and the junk to a fiery doom. The agency announced the plan in late 2019 when it revealed it had…

Nov. 26, 2020Updated: Nov. 26, 2020 7:21 a.m.BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency says it is signing a 86 million-euro ($102 million) contract with a Swiss start-up company to bring a large piece of orbital trash back to Earth. The agency said Thursday that the deal with ClearSpace SA will…

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Bryan Alexander   | USA TODAY With everything going on here on Earth, we might have forgotten to worry about meteorites plummeting from the sky, or asteroids exploding into the surface.Fortunately there's "Fireball: Visitors from the Dark World," streaming Friday on Apple TV+.Full disclosure, filmmaker Werner Herzog and Cambridge scientist Clive Oppenheimer…

Space is a messy place. An estimated 34,000 pieces of junk over 10 cm in diameter are currently orbiting Earth at around 10 times the speed of a bullet. If one of them hits a spacecraft, the damage could be disastrous. In September, the International Space Station had to dodge an unknown…

IMAGE: This image shows four views of asteroid Bennu along with a corresponding global mosaic. The images were taken on Dec. 2, 2018, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's PolyCam camera, which is... view more  Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona By studying impact marks on the surface of asteroid Bennu - the target of…