24 April 2017
Call for international help with space debris
... more than 750 000 pieces of dangerous debris now orbiting Earth, experts recently gathered at the 7th European Conference on Space Debris to discuss how to tackle the global issue of a burgeoning space-junk population. The event which was heralded...
May 2019
Wake-up call for debris creation in geostationary orbit
... issue has been limited to the RemoveDEBRIS demonstration that was launched in 2018, a year after the 7th European Conference on Space Debris established that it is too late to prevent the Kessler Syndrome. This demonstration mission had a budget...
September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
...shared information and the latest research into the debris threat and on new technologies aimed at mitigating debris creation and reducing the orbital debris population at the 7th European Conference on Space Debris in April. The author was among the...
February 2018
Are we asking the right questions about space debris?
... of Management, Vol.42, No.3, March 2016 671-697. 8 McKnight, D., “Proposed Series of Orbital Debris Remediation Activities”, 7th European Conference on Space Debris, Darmstadt, April 2017. About the author Dr Darren S McKnight is Technical Director...
