Space Debris

A large metal ring and sphere that villagers in rural western India said fell from the sky over the weekend could be from a Chinese rocket launched into space last year, officials told local media. The metal ring -- reportedly two to three metres (6.5-10 feet) in diameter and weighing…

TOKYO, Apr 5, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu today announced the development and deployment of a new analysis system to calculate orbital courses of space debris for use with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) "Space Situational Awareness System" ("SSA system") for monitoring space debris. JAXA started operations of…

Usually when a nation-state or a corporation accidentally sends a piece of space junk flying out of control, and it breaks something, other people get upset. Here's a notable exception: A piece of space junk appears to have collided with the Moon at roughly 5,800 miles per hour on March 4th, and…

CRASH LANDING 22:31, 7 Mar 2022Updated: 22:31, 7 Mar 2022AN OUT-OF-CONTROL rocket part the size of a school bus has likely smashed into the Moon's surface by now. According to astronomers, a rocket booster was set to hit the lunar surface at around 7.25am ET (12:25 GMT) after spending nearly…

CRASH LANDING 22:31, 7 Mar 2022Updated: 22:31, 7 Mar 2022AN OUT-OF-CONTROL rocket part the size of a school bus has likely smashed into the Moon's surface by now. According to astronomers, a rocket booster was set to hit the lunar surface at around 7.25am ET (12:25 GMT) after spending nearly…

A chunk of Chinese space junk today crashed into the far side of the Moon, according to a maker of astrometry software. The trash is believed to be a spent Long March 3C rocket booster from the launch of Chang'e 5-T1, a Chinese experimental robotic spacecraft that lifted off in…

A much-debated piece of space junk, suspected to be part of a Chinese rocket that helped launch a 2014 lunar mission, hit the far side of the moon, scientists say. The bus-sized third stage of a Long March 3C rocket was expected to crash into the moon at about 7:25 a.m.…

Home News Spaceflight (Image credit: Starry Night Software) A rogue rocket stage ended its seven-year space odyssey today (March 4), finally slamming into the moon.  The event took place at 7:25 a.m. EST (1225 GMT) on the lunar far side, experts say, meaning it was out of view of ground-based…

In an unprecedented display of cosmic littering, a wayward rocket body will crash into the far side of the moon on Friday marking the first time that a piece of space junk has accidentally struck the lunar surface. The spent rocket booster, believed to be part of the Chinese Chang’e…

Home News Spaceflight (Image credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio by Ernie Wright) A rocket stage will slam into the moon on Friday (March 4), amid a dispute about which country launched it and discussions on the complexity of tracing human-made objects in deep space. What's known for sure is that…