17 January 2025
Investigation launched after SpaceX Spaceship 7 explodes
... industry at large needs to ask the question of how sustainable and safe for the environment it all is? Space debris in orbit is already a massively growing problem and commercial aircraft are now increasingly having flights delayed or diverted ...
July 2014
Achilles’ heel
...); • military threats (e.g. anti-satellite weapons (ASAT), high-altitude nuclear explosion); • cyber attack; • space debris/space debris removal programmes; • signal intercept; • supply chain compromise. The severity of these threats varies. For...
October 2015
Green cosmonautics: an ideal to strive for
...parts8. Some experts believe that we are already seeing a cascading effect – at least at a height of 900-1,000km9. Tackling space debris means getting rid of non-functioning spacecraft and making sure that no spacecraft parts detach in orbit. We must...
18 April 2023
Spire launches customers’ Earth and debris monitoring satellites
... technology. ADLER-2 continues the mission of ADLER-1 (launched in January 2022) to provide insights into space debris in low Earth orbit (LEO) and expand novel atmospheric sensing capabilities to study clouds and aerosols in the ...
