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

Space: The final frontier is fraught with danger ... Dr. Renno and his fellow Wolverines have been developing a method to track debris down to millimeter sizes, using some tech we’ve already ...

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 ...

The Starlink satellite reentry sparked at least 62 fireball reports to the American Meteor Society, which shared images and ...

Midwesterners who were out for a nighttime stroll Tuesday saw something a bit unusual in the sky as falling satellite debris ...

The space debris problem won't solve itself. We've been kicking the can down the road for years as we continue launching more rockets and payloads into space. In the last couple of years ...

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 ...

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.

Space startups in Japan ... urgent action was necessary to track and manage objects in low Earth orbit because of the rapid increase in satellites and space junk. There are already more than ...