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...
March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
... 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...
April 2017
Urgent action needed to keep satellites safe in orbit
... 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...
