The ESA has released the Zero Debris Technical Booklet to elucidate the challenges to a zero-debris future and propose ...

After abruptly calling off its first launch attempt in the early hours of Monday morning, Blue Origin notched a historic ...

and in geosynchronous orbit — where some of the most advanced and expensive satellites operate — they expend the last of their fuel moving to a so-called graveyard orbit, an outer orbit where ...

The term "graveyard orbit" refers to a region at an even higher altitude in the sky where old space debris is moved so that ...

When a satellite is near end of life, the last bit of fuel is used to push it into graveyard orbit. This doesn’t always work, however, and when the light is just right, a chemical reaction makes ...

The officials told New York Times that the satellite, currently in a high-radiation graveyard orbit, may be carrying a dummy warhead and testing components for a device that could destroy numerous ...

But it will likely aim to burn up over a remote area of the ocean — as is common for second-stage rockets, which either blaze back to Earth or are maneuvered into a “graveyard orbit.” ...