October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
...to deal with in the vicinity of GEO, and a second is that the current policy of retiring satellites to a super-synchronous graveyard orbit, and then abandoning them, may have to be revisited. Looking for alternatives It has been proposed that, rather...
09 October 2019
The first satellite servicing spacecraft launches successfully
... (200 miles) to the so-called great rust graveyard in the skies, the orbit where geostationary satellites go to die. The two...year period, we will take the IS-901 satellite back to the graveyard orbit and undock from it there,” he said. “And then the ...
12 May 2021
ESA signs contract with Swiss agency to clean space debris
..., Vespa (Vega Secondary Payload Adapter) from the graveyard orbit for safe disposal via atmospheric re-entry. The ClearSpace.... Our goal is to build affordable and sustainable in-orbit services," said ClearSpace Chief Executive Officer Luc Piguet. ...
October 2015
Space debris, Kessler Syndrome, and the unreasonable expectation of certainty
..., such as de-orbiting the satellite or re-orbiting it to a graveyard orbit. Nevertheless, the anticipated...the card once it has been removed (if a satellite is removed from orbit there is no way to determine with certainty that it would have been...
August 2016
Academia’s role in space protection, space traffic management & orbital debris mitigation
... of operations) and common underlying space object behavioral injunctions (e.g., space weather, or policies governing graveyard orbits). But the foundational problem - to accurately understand and predict how objects behave in space - is emerging...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
... author’s own state-change threat-detection algorithms have seen satellites enter into geosynchronous graveyard orbits and ‘play dead’, while their orbital elements actually improve with time, showing that they are still controlled and...
