... means that the threat of a potential collision or break-up in orbit will escalate. This increased likelihood of increasing amounts of debris endangers current and future satellite missions and puts society’s reliance on data from space at risk. ELSA...
...first milestone this week as it successfully caught some mock debris 300 kilometres above the Earth. Like the plastic that .... It is estimated that over half a million pieces of debris of varying sizes clutter the space around Earth. The problem has...
... the research is principally performed in Australia where government-university-industry programs have led to many breakthroughs in space debris detection and tracking over the past decade. The maturity of this tracking technology and the existing...
... more accessible the risks associated with space debris increase dramatically. Governments and industry around the... these exciting goals. Approximately 750,000 pieces of space debris over one centimeter in diameter are orbiting the Earth, threatening...
... a 400 km altitude, 51.6 degree inclined orbit. Design changes made for BEAK include a new aeroshell deployment mechanism. Debris mitigation LEO is one of the most commercially valuable regions of outer space (second only to geostationary orbit, GEO...
... have not even considered doing so. In any case, much remains to be done to actually reduce the population of orbital debris, while the launch of constellations of hundreds, maybe even thousands, of micro and nanosatellites to LEO will increase the...