As more spacecraft are launched, the risk increases that uncontrolled space debris - those without active guidance - will ...

Mining ocean resources needed for electric cars and other devices is currently a hot issue of dispute. Final resolution of ...

the development and uptake of optical and radio tracking aids, and a longer list of additional developments. The Technical Booklet summarizes our problem: Space Debris requires standardized methods to ...

This pattern is more indicative of debris colliding with the super-hot temperatures of Earth’s atmosphere. According to space tracker Jonathan McDowell, it was a Starlink satellite.

space tracker extraordinaire and Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell is casting doubt on the theory. The uncertainty highlights how difficult it can be to trace back space debris that ...

The ongoing mystery over where the metallic ring came from highlights the growing risk of falling space debris, the origin of which can sometimes be hard to track. In March 2023, a two-pound ...

The skies in Southern Wisconsin were lit up last night as people reached out to us about the fiery streaks in the sky.

It turns out the object was a piece of space debris that had re-entered the atmosphere, according to Facebook post by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic ...

Nevertheless, I am not fully convinced that the ring is space debris at all," he wrote. Another prominent space tracker, Marco Langbroek, believes it's plausible that the ring came from space ...

Commercial flights operated by JetBlue Airways Corp. and American Airlines Group Inc. were forced to take avoidance action after a failed SpaceX Starship test flight exploded on Thursday.

WASHINGTON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - A SpaceX Starship rocket broke up in space minutes after ... altered course to avoid potential debris, according to flight tracking website FlightRadar24.

but he said this is the first time he’s aware of its use for tracking space debris. Fernando first tested the idea to track the controlled reentry of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in September ...