Space Debris

by Andrew Jones — January 11, 2022 Orbital debris illustration. Credit: ESA HELSINKI — U.S. space tracking has linked the breakup of Chinese satellite Yunhai-1 (02) to a collision with a small piece of debris from a Russian satellite launch, according to NASA. The Yunhai-1 (02) satellite was developed by…

by Sandra Erwin — January 6, 2022 LeoLabs' West Australian space radar conceptual field of view. Credit: LeoLabs Darren McKnight: The problem are not commercial megaconstellations but a failure to deal with existing debris WASHINGTON — The United States is a space superpower but is not doing as much as…

Home News Spaceflight A Russian Angara A5 rocket launches from Plesetsk Cosmodrome on the vehicle’s third demonstration mission on Dec. 27, 2021. The rocket, carrying a dummy payload, reached low Earth orbit, but an upper-stage engine failure prevented it from going higher as planned, according to media reports. (Image credit:…

by Sandra Erwin — January 5, 2022 Orbital debris illustration. Credit: ESA Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. David Thompson said the Space Force wants to buy debris-removal services from the private sector WASHINGTON — Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. David Thompson in a video released Jan. 5 called…

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About a year ago, a team of astronomers working in Hawaii glimpsed something in the night sky. A four-minute-long flash of light. Depending on who you ask, that flash was either a powerful explosion from 13.4 billion years ago—a virtual snapshot of the universe as it existed just 400 million…

Space junk to be tracked from new SA observatory World-first technology developed in Adelaide by Silentium Defence will be used to track space debris at a newly unveiled observatory in regional South Australia. There is more to this story But it’s a member-only story. Subscribe today to unlock it and…

Home News Appliances (Image credit: NASA) The International Space Station just had to dodge space junk in orbit, demonstrating the increasing risk to the orbital station and smaller satellites from the proliferation of space trash in Low Earth Orbit.   According to Reuters, Roscosmos reported that the International Space Station…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Spacewalking astronauts replaced a broken antenna outside the International Space Station on Thursday after getting NASA’s all-clear for orbiting debris. U.S. astronauts Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron were supposed to complete the job Tuesday, but NASA delayed the spacewalk because of potentially threatening space junk.…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT) after end of spacewalk. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, wearing a spacesuit and mounted on the end of the space station’s robotic arm, works with a replacement S-band antenna on the lab’s port-side truss Thursday. Credit:…