Space Debris

The UK Space Agency (UKSA) wants to hear from anyone with novel ideas for how to track all the pieces of debris now moving in orbit.UKSA has £1m to dispense in grants for smart new solutions.There are about 900,000 redundant objects larger than 1cm circling overhead.Even the smallest items are…

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Space is getting crowded. Aging satellites and space debris crowd low-Earth orbit, and launching new satellites adds to the collision risk. The most effective way to solve the space junk problem, according to a new study, is not to capture debris or deorbit old satellites: it’s an international agreement to…

The NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley during a dress rehearsal on Saturday ahead of NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station.SpaceX via TwitterSpaceX is preparing to fly its first humans to orbit aboard a new Crew Dragon spaceship.The Demo-2 mission, as it's called, is a high-stakes…

May 22, 2020 | 4:46pm Earth has been spared yet again — from asteroids, at least. Australians in central Victoria were shocked to see streaks of fire passing through the night sky on Friday, sparking theories of meteors and aliens on social media. Sky-watchers in parts of Tasmania also reported…

Friday, May 22nd 2020, 3:55 pm - Witnesses described it as a 'surreal' sight Residents of southeastern Australia and Tasmania witnessed a fantastic sight in the sky Friday night, as fireball blazed by overhead. Thomas Toose, a farmer in Creswick, Victoria, northwest of Melbourne, called the sight "surreal" and told…

Video of the fireball taken near Portland, Victoria, Australia. Gif: Mel Aldrige/Victorian Storm Chasers/GizmodoIncredible video taken last night in Australia shows what was likely the late-stage of a Russian rocket burning up on re-entry, in a light show that was seen across the southeast portions of the country.Australians living in…

Emergency services were flooded with calls about a potential plane crash, residents feared 2020 may finally have unleashed alien hordes to put humanity out of its misery… but what exactly did light up the skies above Victoria? “Feels right that the next step for 2020 is alien invasion…” wrote one…

In mid-May 2020, as people worldwide remained quarantined to limit the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease, social media posts claimed not only were humans on Earth sheltering-in-place during the pandemic, but our life source — the sun — had gone on “lockdown,” too. Recirculating sensational headlines on the concept…

The Chinese communist regime is a box of surprises — bad ones. We have not yet recovered from the coronavirus pandemic they caused, and they have already exposed us to another huge risk. At 11:33 a.m. on May 11, a gigantic, out-of-control space object crossed the atmosphere and fell into…