31 July 2020
Amazon's Kuiper mega constellation gets FCC approval
...a finalised plan for how it will mitigate orbital debris. Although Amazon have yet to complete the final ...one millimetre expected to reside in earth orbits, unless space debris mitigation measures are properly implemented by spacecraft designers and ...
17 November 2022
Study aims to support rocket debris recovery system
... activities is one of the current hot topics in both the UK and global launch sectors. While not strictly ‘space debris' in the traditional term, Simpson says it is important to recognise rocket parts such as fairings should not contribute to the...
03 May 2019
Debris from India's ASAT test worse than predicted
... the frame in the remarkable video captured by Deimos. The white streaks, which themselves look like trails of space debris shooting through the skies, are in fact stars. They appear as dashed lines because the Deimos observatory...
01 September 2016
Mega-constellation deployment to be discussed at IAC 2016
... University of Braunschweig. The panelists will include Dr. J.-C. Liou, NASA Chief Scientist for Orbital Debris; Dr. Holger Krag, Head of ESA Space Debris Office; Mr. Michael Lindsay, OneWeb Mission System Engineering and Analysis Lead; and Professor...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... 500,000 pieces of man made, non-functioning space debris, travelling at high speed which could seriously damage ... codes described above in respect of planetary protection and space debris mitigation. The dangers inherent in relying on voluntary codes...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... the position of the target satellite with a sufficient degree of accuracy. Forecasting the long-term evolution of the space debris population. This figure describes the results from of a large number of Monte Carlo simulations of the long-term...
