China’s construction of a pair of communications megaconstellations could cloud low Earth orbit with large spent rocket ...

Environmental activists often say that humans have left an indelible mark on the planet we occupy and evidence of our existence will remain long after we’re gone. However, there is a growing problem ...

The ESA hopes we'll someday treat Earth's orbit as an international nature preserve: 'What you bring in with you, you must ...

A new short film from the European Space Agency (ESA) has reignited debate about the escalating hazards posed by space debris ...

While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...

Mathematical models, such as NASA’s Object Reentry Survival Analysis Tool and simplified general perturbations models, can be used to estimate the track of decaying orbital debris. History has ...

Traditionally, the discussion of orbital weaponry and space-based munitions has been considered somewhat taboo. Since the ...

The European Space Agency's short documentary film "Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?" on the state of space debris premiered at ...

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Astroscale Japan Inc. has announced that it has successfully approached a piece of orbital debris traveling at a high speed to inspect it from a distance of about 15 meters.

The approximately eight-minute-long film "Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?" attempts to answer its conjecture with supportive statistics and orbital projections. For instance, it discusses how the ...