Orbital debris stopped being an abstract risk in 2025 and briefly became a live emergency, forcing operators to scramble ...

"And the vast majority of them want to be in a 400 to 600 kilometer range above Earth" Which is self cleaning, since there is still enough atmosphere drag to bring most every satellite back to earth ...

An orbital emergency in 2025 linked to space debris highlights gaps in tracking, rising launch activity, and growing risks to human spaceflight and Earth’s orbital environment ...

BOSTON — A study just completed by NASA looked at what new roles the space agency — and the U.S. government more broadly — should play in mitigating the growth of orbital debris and promoting space ...

The Purple Mountain Observatory and the Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University, in Nanjing China-Research, cooperating with the Albert Einstein institute, in Hannover, Germany, put forward a ...

The breakup of a defunct Russian satellite immediately sent astronauts to shelter in capsules attached to the ISS but adds to the problem millions of bits of debris in low Earth orbit. The crew of the ...

Satellite builder Terran Orbital, already under considerable pressure from the NYSE because of its low share price, issued a statement (on a Form 8-K) to the SEC on December 11th which formally ...

There are several tens of thousands of pieces of debris being actively tracked, another ~1M estimated at >1cm, and a couple hundred million pieces smaller than that. Every few years, those estimates ...