Space Debris

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy gave one of his most historic speeches as he catapulted the U.S. into the space race against Russia. His words still hold immense passion and foresight today: “We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained and new…

Terms like “cultural heritage” and “archaeology” might conjure Indiana Jones-lie scenes of old and ancient things buried under the sands of time. But even now, each one of us is producing material that could interest future humans trying to record and study our own era. For those who believe that…

More pieces were found over the following weeks to months, including much further away, out to Tumbarumba on Jordan Hobbs' property. It thrust the discussion of space junk into the spotlight here. How we manage objects in space, what we do to dispose of them, and how we prevent space…

Space The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped the results of smashing a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphous By Alex Wilkins The asteroid Dimorphous, three months after it was hit by a spacecraft NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA), and Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Last year, NASA smashed a spacecraft into the asteroid…

A dome-shaped mysterious object that has washed up on a remote Australian beach is “most likely a solid rocket motor casing”, the country’s space agency said on Wednesday, as police in Western Australia removed the “space debris" to a secure location. The canister was discovered near the beach in Green…

A large metal object that washed up on a beach in Western Australia is believed to be space junk. The car-sized lump appeared on a beach about 155 miles (250 kilometers) north of Perth, Western Australia, several days ago, and has received growing attention ever since. Commenting on the unusual…

Authorities are investigating whether a cylindrical object about the size of a small car that washed up on an Australian beach is part of a foreign rocket. Police had cordoned off the object after it was discovered at Green Head about 150 miles north of the west coast city of…

It’s getting awfully crowded in low Earth orbit with more than 4,000 Starlink satellites currently in orbit and thousands more that will soon make their way up there. SpaceX’s internet satellites often stand in the way of orbiting spacecraft, defunct satellites, or space junk, racking up 50,000 potentially dangerous approaches…

A new method of tracking tiny pieces of space junk has passed its first demonstration test in orbit, according to its builders ODIN Space of London. Over the past two years, ODIN has been developing and qualifying technology to detect and track space junk that is too small to register…

Photos from low Earth orbit (LEO) are often strikingly beautiful. But what they typically fail to capture is the tens of thousands of debris pieces, or “space junk,” that orbit around Earth’s face like hungry mosquitoes—and threaten to hit satellites and other orbiting assets with enough force to be destructive.…