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space junk fell this morning

Large Space Stations At Risk From Space Junk

A little spacecraft could soon make a big contribution in the fight against space junk. Researchers are developing a cleanup cubesat called OSCaR (Obsolete Spacecraft Capture and Removal), which would

Luxembourg-based Intelsat reports that its Intelsat 29E satellite (IS-29E) is now a total loss, after having reported earlier that the spacecraft suffered an anomaly. Late on April 7, the Intelsat 29e

"Space is for everyone" is a popular saying, but it rarely holds true — partly because space is expensive, and partly because certain countries have decades of a head start and established procedures

Brightening Bennu brought to you by barnstorming OSIRIS-REx as NASA readies for sample retrieval mission. Source of shared Link

We've put a lot of things in space over the last 60 years. It's time we got some of that down.

A satellite in space has fired a net at a target to test active space-junk-cleanup technology, and the video is amazing.

The European Space Agency nudged one of its satellites from its normal orbit this week to avoid a potential collision with space junk, soaring almost 400 feet above the risky object. But now, the agency

The first spacecraft to demonstrate active space debris-removal technologies — such as a harpoon, a net and a drag sail — in orbit has been released from the International Space Station to commence its

Wherever we humans go, we definitely leave our signs of being there behind. In the very ecosystem, you may or may not find signs of a lion, for example, but you will somehow find signs of the human race,

Russia's space agency is developing a novel method for dealing with space junk: vaporizing it with lasers.

The first experiment designed to demonstrate active space debris removal in orbit has just reached the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's Dragon capsule.

The Chinese experimental space station Tiangong-1 fell to Earth on Sunday (April 1). But hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk still circle Earth, and a few of them will crash soon, experts said.

"Satelltes from the Western Nations are colliding with those from the Russia, whose satellites are going the wrong way. What first seems an accident, then a few isolated incidents, becomes Hell on

China's space station will fall out of space this week. They lost control of it some time ago, so it's uncertain where it will fall, but it's most likely to be in the ocean. I remember when Skylab dropped

A space harpoon test went off without a hitch in a lab of European aerospace company Airbus recently, suggesting that the technology could be on track to help clean up the ever-growing cloud of orbiting

According to the BBC website, is full of space junk near-earth orbit sizes and quantity

At least 500,000 pieces of space debris threaten satellites and astronauts, but a California-based company says it has a new approach for taking out the garbage.

Coronal holes on the Sun and space junk can be "long-lived" when sunspot activity drops to the low point of the 11-year solar cycle.