Meteors vs space junk: Are we seeing more fireballs in the sky than there used to be?
Social media reports of fireballs lighting up the night sky seemingly pop up very regularly — just this week hundreds of people saw one over the US and Canada. Are they becoming more frequent or are ...
The Washington Post11 个月
Space junk is out of control. Here’s why — and what to do about it.
About 25,000 are pieces of obsolete satellites, rocket parts and debris — space junk orbiting out of control and posing a threat to the satellites people need. Nine in 10 useful satellites are ...
5 Times Space Junk Almost Caused A Major Disaster
Space Junk is a problem few outside of the spaceflight ... The U.S.-based space-tracking firm LeoLabs detected more, finding ...
Gulf Times2 天
Alarming boom in space junk
A few hundred tonnes of old space junk now vaporises in the atmosphere every year. The International Telecommunications Union claims that the applications for satellite spectrum have already ...
autoevolution8 天
Space Junk
Since Elon Musk sent a Tesla Roadster in space in 2018, cars made on Earth by humans have made their entrance onto the intergalactic stage. For all you alien readers out there, we created this ...
BBC6 个月
Space junk: Falling rocket lights up sky in California
Many thought it was a meteor shower or a comet - however experts say it was a piece of space junk re-entering Earth's atmosphere, which had come from a Chinese rocket involved in a recent space ...
BBC6 个月
Japan comes face to face with its own space junk
A satellite operated by Japanese company Astroscale has chased down a 15 year-old piece of space junk and taken an up-close image of it. The object is a discarded rocket segment that's about 11m ...
Space.com8 天
The moon, Mars and space junk: World space agency heads outline grand plans, but also concerns
The moon, space sustainability, asteroids and more are being discussed at a major conference in Milan. MILAN — Leaders of major space agencies stated grand plans for the near future at a major ...
federalnewsnetwork.com12 小时
Commercial space companies now able to churn out satellites
And one of our primary goals for this facility is to really tap into the market need around both government and commercial customers. With our heritage from our parent company, we have eight ...
The Verge25 天
Europe’s space agency will destroy a brand-new satellite in 2027 just to see what happens
Space junk is becoming a bigger problem as we send more satellites into orbit, but there are efforts to try and address it. This mission is part of the ESA’s Zero Debris Charter initiative to ...
MarketWatch7 天
Who Gives the Most Cash for Junk Cars?
Remember that online junk buying services typically offer free towing and pickup services, while scrapyards may deduct those services from the overall purchase price. After finding a buyer ...