Space Debris

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA on Friday set the stage for a global debate over the basic principles governing how humans will live and work on the moon, as it released the main tenets of an international pact for moon exploration called the Artemis Accords. FILE PHOTO: The full moon, also…

Earlier this week the sky was falling—or at least what went up did come crashing down when a Chinese heavy-lift rocket made an uncontrolled descent back to Earth. At nearly 18 tons, it was one of the largest pieces of space debris ever to fall uncontrollably back to Earth, and…

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A piece of a Chinese rocket launched as an experiment to send humans to the moon in the future has crash-landed in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of Mauritania.The Long March 5B (CZ-5B) rocket was launched into space on 5 May before its core stage, which serves as the…

Since the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, the lower orbit around the Earth has become an increasingly congested environment with more than 2,200 satellite launches to date. Those satellites – along with launch vehicle components and debris from mechanical disintegration, collisions and explosions – now fill this region with…

FP TrendingMay 13, 2020 10:58:08 ISTPart of a Chinese rocket weighing around 18,000 kgs crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Monday in an uncontrolled descent. The debris measured 30.48 metres. According to a report in Science Alert, this is the most significant uncontrolled descent of human-made space debris in decades.…

The space debris problem is hitting home, literally.Last week, China’s space program debuted a new rocket that expands its ability to do big projects in low-Earth orbit. The launch of the Long March 5B demonstrated a new space capsule for carrying astronauts to orbit. It also appears to have dropped…

Getty ImageHere’s something that was bound to happen sooner or later. A 37,000 pound Chinese Long March 5B rocket hurtled itself towards Earth uncontrolled a speeds reaching thousands of miles per hour. I say it was bound to happen, and probably will happen many more times in the near future,…