Space Debris

by Sandra Erwin — September 24, 2020 A cloud of orbital debris. Credit: AGI The 18th Space Control Squadron at Vandenberg Air Force Base is now providing “more meaningful” data on approximately 25,000 space objects. WASHINGTON — U.S. Space Command starting Sept. 24 is providing more precise data about the location…

Home News Spaceflight Every once in a while, orbital trajectories and fate's gravity conspire to let Earth briefly adopt a miniature moon to join us for a few measures of our planet's constant dance around the sun.Scientists rarely get to watch the process in action, but now they think they've…

WASHINGTON — The International Space Station maneuvered to avoid a potential collision with a piece of space debris Sept. 22, an incident the head of NASA used to advocate for more funding for the agency directed to handle space traffic management. NASA announced on the afternoon of Sept. 22 that…

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The Elusive Peril of Space Junk Millions of human artifacts circle the Earth. Can we clean them up before they cause a disaster? September 21, 2020 l For decades, the International Space Station has been hovering over Earth, in an orbit somewhere between two hundred and three hundred miles above…

Space debris — detritus orbiting Earth from satellites — is a growing problem which threatens the future of human space exploration. To tackle this issue, the Business Secretary Alok Sharma has announced £1million in funding, via the UK Space Agency (UKSA), for seven space-cleaning programmes. Astronomers are concerned that high-value craft in…

The European Space Agency (ESA) has let people know where €129.4m of work for its Hera mission will go. The UK is, unsurprisingly, not on the list. Hera, named for the Greek goddess of marriage, will follow NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) spacecraft to a rendezvous with the Didymos…

A renowned space archaeologist and Flinders University associate professor, known as ‘Dr Space Junk’, has been fined $1200 for failing to lodge tax returns.Read More

The Zimmerwald Laser and Astrometry Telescope ZIMLAT in Zimmerwald, which is used for distance measurement to space debris objects. Credit: University of Bern, AIUB On the afternoon of February 10, 2009, the operational communications satellite Iridium 33 collided with the obsolete Cosmos 2251 communications satellite over Siberia at an altitude…

These days social media has become an important part of our lives. but the flow of information is so that it drags us without leaving much space for considered thinking before engaging in commenting or other activity. Such a hasty engagement often complicate the matters further instead of resolving them.…