A new report from NASA's Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy provides agency leadership with new insight about how to measure the risks presented by orbital debris. "Growing activity in ...

Additionally, NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office says there are about 9,000 metric tons of material orbiting Earth. Most of the debris in lower orbit is "moving very fast and can reach speeds of ...

As space junk increases, more operators are choosing to launch without any insurance at all. To compensate, companies are ...

NASA and other federal agencies are getting more serious about addressing the proliferation of orbital debris: Last month, the Federal Aviation Administration proposed new regulations that would ...

In the United States, NASA has its own Orbital Debris Program based in Houston, Texas tasked with creating less orbital debris and designing equipment to track and remove space junk.

Spacecraft from NASA and India's space agency have snapped orbital photos of the Japanese lunar lander Resilience after its ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of NASA's efforts to address orbital debris, the agency is funding research proposals from three university-based teams over the next year to ...

In the United States, NASA has its own Orbital Debris Program based in Houston, Texas tasked with creating less orbital debris and designing equipment to track and remove space junk.

Measurement data used by the NASA ODPO to describe the orbital debris populations in the near-Earth space environment. (Credit: NASA ODPO) As the above graphic makes clear, ...

Additionally, NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office says there are about 9,000 metric tons of material orbiting Earth. Most of the debris in lower orbit is "moving very fast and can reach speeds of ...