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Scientists call on UN to help solve Earth's space junk problem
"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite." ...
Debris Rains From Space After SpaceX’s Starship Is Lost in Flight
While Elon Musk’s spaceflight company repeated a spectacular catch of its powerful booster stage, the upper stage experienced ...
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Chinese astronauts install debris shields on Tiangong space station during 8.5-hour spacewalk (video)
Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong, part of China's three-person Shenzhou 19 mission, completed an 8.5-hour extravehicular activity ...
What will it take to reach zero space 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, ...
Fire destroys Starship on its seventh test flight, raining debris from space
The third Starship test flight last March saw the spacecraft reach its planned trajectory and fly halfway around the world ...
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What Is Space Junk, and What Can Be Done About It?
NASA According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently orbiting Earth. But what is that debris exactly, and how did it get there? Is the ...
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Space junk is out of control. Here’s why — and what to do about it.
About 25,000 are pieces of obsolete satellites, rocket parts and debris — space junk orbiting out of control and posing a threat to the satellites people need. Nine in 10 useful satellites are ...
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As the amount of junk in space magnifies, space agencies warn future missions could be in danger
Back in 1979, Houston became home to a program that searched for ways to create less debris in space and track and remove existing debris. More than four decades later, NASA has called the growing ...