27 October 2015
Catalina Sky Survey spots object WT1190F – set to return to Earth on November 13
... to pass the buck, as there is no binding legislation in place that would force all space players to track space debris/mitigate the problems it poses. And although scientists insist that WT1190F poses no threat to anyone on the ground, its...
March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
... Earth So far the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) has adopted Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines as the first step of establishing a new regulatory regime of the long-term sustainability in space. At present...
September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
... orbital environments. Clean Space is also tackling space debris mitigation and remediation, to ensure highly-trafficked orbits remain ...2023, will be the world’s first large-scale space debris removal mission, to capture and deorbit an entire ESA-...
15 January 2018
MP highlights ROOM article during Parliamentary debate
... government to be “bold”. In response to a question about space debris mitigation, Mr Hayes produced the Autumn 2017 issue of ROOM and said:... weekend on exactly that point. It is headed ‘Space debris break point’ and it sets out precisely the kind of...
03 February 2018
Space Traffic Control
... that juncture in space’. In eight chapters, the book describes space situational awareness and tracking systems, debris mitigation techniques, the threats and hazards themselves and how to improve the situation in future. It is illustrated, fairly...
June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
...-SAT in a circular orbit over the poles at an altitude of about 620 km – an orbit that meets all technical and debris mitigation guidelines yet presents an actual and typical ‘in-space’ scenario. Already over 100 different experimenters from across...
