... 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...
... 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...
... with nearly a dozen spent Russian rocket upper stages of a similar scale, represents one of the top public space debris problems. NASA visualisation of LEO (low-Earth orbit) clutter A number of policy, legal, and regulatory questions will...
... seems another best use of the ‘next’ dollar: funding additional sources of high-quality observations of space debris. National space agencies or science foundations might set up a series of operations and maintenance service contracts with colleges...
...‘intra-planetary geopolitical squabbles’ will simply disappear. We are locked into a truly terrifying phase of space pollution as the space debris problem changes from being passive to aggressive In seeking ways to protect Earth from military and non...
...also become an essential method of planetary defence, allowing observers to document and take precautions when necessary against space debris like meteors and satellite remnants. Many of these remnants do not enter the atmosphere; instead, they orbit...