Space Debris

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On Wednesday Elon Musk’s commercial space company SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit as part of Inspiration4, the first all-civilian spaceflight mission. They will return to Earth three days later, having made history. Yet apart from collecting data to add to a robust body of research on human health and…

by Jeff Foust — September 15, 2021 Maj. Gen. DeAnna Burt said a commercial orbital debris removal capability would be "very valuable" since it would avoid concerns that one developed by the military would also be used as a weapon. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust WAILEA, Hawaii — A Space Force general…

Home News Tech Apple computer company co-founder Steve Wozniak, seen here in a 2010 photo, is launching the new company Privateer Space to clean up space junk. (Image credit: Marcel Antonisse/ANP/AFP via Getty Images) Apple's co-founder plans to bring disruption to a new industry: the long-standing effort to clean up…

Leer en Español Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is starting a private space company called Privateer. The company has been founded alongside Alex Fielding, who was a member of the first iMac team and founded “Wheels of Zeus” (‘WoZ’) in 2002 – a company that created wireless location trackers - but…

Engineers are set to test a device that could pull defunct spacecraft and used rocket parts back to Earth, allowing them to burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere. Researchers at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, are launching a prototype drag sail Thursday aboard a rocket made by Firefly Aerospace,…

Space | Analysis 2 September 2021 By Jonathan O’Callaghan The growing space junk problem could get worse with anti-satellite weapons Frame Stock Footage/Shutterstock Today there are an estimated 18,000 pieces of trackable space junk in Earth’s orbit, which includes anything larger than a tennis ball. The largest group of these…

WHEN AMATEUR IRISH astronomer John Flannery first took an interest in the hobby as a child, space was a much cleaner place than it is in 2021. Thanks to human activity, there are now hundreds of thousands of man-made objects ranging from satellites — some ‘live’ and some ‘dead’ —…

Illustration of ClearSpace-1, a planned active debris removal mission. Credit: ClearSpace SA Less than a year on from the UK Space Agency committing £1 million in funding to combat space debris, Fujitsu UK has successfully combined quantum-inspired computing and Artificial Intelligence to support the transformation of space debris removal. Fujitsu’s…

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