July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
..., maybe even thousands, of micro and nanosatellites to LEO will increase the density of active space objects that will eventually become orbital debris if their end of life de-orbiting is not managed properly. Satellite trajectory as seen from the...
21 September 2018
Net to capture space junk passes debut debris collection
... that litters the skies around our planet. It is estimated that over half a million pieces of debris of varying sizes clutter the space around Earth. The problem has become so huge, that specialist programs have been set...
12 November 2018
"Its Business Time" for Rocket Lab's first commercial flight
...for Spire Global, Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Fleet Space Technologies and the Irvine CubeSat Stem Program. Hoping...drag sail technology demonstrator, designed and built by High Performance Space Structure Systems GmbH, known as NABEO. The device, ...
27 November 2017
ASTROSCALE and SSTL join forces to get rid of space debris
... potential to provide a cost-effective approach for ensuring the long-term sustainability of the space environment for all.” The vast majority of space debris is found in a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) at an altitude of 800 - 2000 kilometres above Earth and...
23 September 2020
Third move for the ISS this year to avoid space debris
... conjunctions,” said NASA chief Jim Bridenstine via Twitter on Tuesday. This week’s incidence saw a piece of space debris pass as close as approximately 1.4 kilometers (nearly one mile) of the orbital laboratory, NASA said; significantly closer...
22 June 2021
Space Debris Peril
... apart from the many books that have sought to highlight the problem of space debris but trivialised it in the process (for example, by referring to it as ‘space junk’). To some extent, it is over-academised, which risks excluding the non-specialist...
