Stories about the problems posed by trash in orbit, and initiatives from both governments and industry to clean it up.
Astroscale’s UK branch announced it had won a contract on Wednesday to continue working on an active debris removal mission that will take two defunct British sats out of orbit. The £1.95M ($2.5M) contract from the UK Space Agency will fund development of the Cleaning Outer Space Mission through Innovative Captures, or COSMIC, spacecraft. COSMIC: […]
The second stage of a ULA rocket that sent a NOAA weather satellite to orbit in 2018 broke apart dramatically in orbit last week, generating a debris cloud first tracked by Slingshot Aerospace.
China’s plans for greater connectivity in LEO are coming with a price—a large amount of space debris.
Congestion has gotten so bad in LEO that ESA warns the future of space travel could be in jeopardy.
“I know what I would prefer [to do], but Congress will tell us to wait,”
NASA will pay SpaceX $843M to develop the US Deorbit Vehicle.
The Satcat database catalogs 60,000+ objects in orbit, from active satellites to drifting debris
Astroscale’s IPO proves there’s value in junk stocks—space junk stocks, that is.
This is just the sixth time in the last two years that two non-maneuverable space objects have come so close.
The company’s inspection satellite will approach the abandoned upper stage of a H-2A rocket that’s been floating aimlessly in space since 2009
The Office of Space Commerce awarded the first contracts to shape the long-awaited Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS)
Spaceflight can be a filthy business.
