Space Debris

A piece of space junk being monitored by the European Space Agency as part of a mission to remove space junk has been hit by another piece of space junk. The collision highlights the mounting threat of space debris, and the need to deal with it sooner rather than later.…

News Spaceflight An artist's impression of ClearSpace-1 capturing a rocket piece in space. (Image credit: ClearSpace SA) The target for a space debris cleanup mission is apparently in pieces. A leftover rocket adapter, expected to be removed from low Earth orbit in 2026, has new pieces of space debris floating…

Russia and India have kick-started a space race to the Moon’s South Pole in search of water and other precious resources. The Luna-25 mission, Russia’s first to the Moon since the Soviet Union's Luna-24 in 1976, is due to land at the same time next week as India’s Chandrayaan-3, which launched last month. Both…

Sierra Vista, AZ, August 09, 2023 --(PR.com)-- The world is grappling with the undeniable crisis of climate change, but author Mark Rider's new book, "Amazon & SpaceX are Accelerating Climate Change," challenges conventional understanding by shedding light on an overlooked and surprising source of this pressing issue. In his thought-provoking book,…

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Key PointsMelburnians noticed a mysterious ball of light shoot across the city's sky on Monday.The Australian Space Agency investigated the phenomenon, after residents suggested it could be a meteor.The agency has since confirmed it was likely the remnants of a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket re-entering the atmosphere.The Australian Space Agency has…

Man-made debris and naturally occurring micrometeoroids orbit in and around Earth's space environment at high speeds. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity selected four vendors to develop technologies and new approaches for tracking small debris objects in space. A-Tech, Advanced Space, SRI International, and West Virginia…

Aug. 1, 2023, AUSTIN, TX – Thanks to the explosion of the work-from-home movement, tighter monetary policy, and population emigration away from urban markets, office space sectors in key US cities are predicted to depreciate by $800 billion in value by 2030. The statistic, as covered by MyEListing.com in their latest…

The mystery of a huge piece of "space junk" that washed up on a beach in Western Australia may have finally been solved. The Australian Space Agency first issued a statement about the cylindrical metal debris on July 17. On Monday (July 31), the agency said that the mysterious wreckage…

Knowing that all of humanity's ecosystems are inextricably linked, including our space environment, I became the world’s first space environmentalist a decade ago, advocating for a broader definition of environment that extends beyond the atmosphere. There are approximately 30,000 pieces of tracked debris now zipping through space at upward of…