Tag Archives: space junk

(More recent) – A chunk of debris from a flaming rocket seen streaking across the Pacific Northwest sky last week crashed onto a farm in eastern Washington state, authorities said. After the …

A streak of light in the night sky over much of the Pacific Northwest on Thursday sparked much speculation among Earthlings. It turns out that its origin was apparently very earthly: space …

(More recent) – Last Thursday was apparently garbage day on the International Space Station, which disposed of a 2.9-ton pallet of used nickel-hydrogen batteries. It is the largest mass of space debris …

The image: Sumitomo Forestry Swimming around the Earth is a group of satellites. Cool for GPS, not so good for weather mood monitoring and internet-space junk. This is why Sumitomo Forestry and …

A possible image of NASA’s lost Centaur Upper Stage rocket booster in 1966. The image: Gianluca Massey, an astronomer with the Virtual Telescope Project 2.0 A small mysterious object is passing through …

Conceptual image of the ClearSpace-1 mission. The image: Esa European Space Agency has signed a landmark agreement with Swiss beginningsClearspace to remove a single item of space debris in 2025. The $ …

A Chinese rocket stage and a Soviet-era satellite collided on Earth overnight. This collision would have created massive amounts of new space debris and made our current space junk problem even worse. …

Space junk is a major problem for space agencies and a serious threat to future space missions. Researchers have now devised a new way to detect and track space junk in real …

The computer image shows the distribution of space debris in orbit around the Earth.The image: Esa Our ability to efficiently detect space debris has taken a significant leap forward, thanks to a …

Photo: Dennis Chargelet (Getty Images) Federal Communications Commission gave Amazon on Thursday for its ambitious proceed Project Kuiper, which will be installed 3,236 broadband satellites in orbit for beam internet coverage Practical. …