The danger is not hypothetical. On April 30, 2025, the International Space Station performed its 41st maneuver to avoid orbital debris from a fragment of a Chinese Long March rocket launched in 2005.

Another method is based on the analysis of laser-optical light curves of orbital debris objects and enables the preparation of robotic missions to remove space debris objects. a large part of the work ...

Space debris tracking specialist Neuraspace added another optical telescope to extend satellite ... to less than 100 meters within a single orbital revolution," which the company says meets ...

In order to achieve the associated goals, the department AOS operates both deployable laser-optical ground stations and a large observatory as part of the "Orbital Photonics" scientific working group ...

Astroscale Japan Inc. has announced that it has successfully approached a piece of orbital debris traveling at a high speed to inspect it from a distance of about 15 meters. The Tokyo-based ...

One major issue concerns the satellite’s orbital debris mitigation plan ... address how such a large satellite could interfere with optical astronomy, although AST has been working with ...

Catalogued debris is only the material current sensors can measure and spot check. 4. NASA, “Reentry of U.S. Rocket Stage Above South America,” Orbital Debris Quarterly News 15, no. 3 (2011): 3. In ...

The number of active satellites is now comparable to the number of debris pieces in orbit ... The issue of orbital overcrowding is having effects now. Satellites that are too close together ...

Applications for this facility include design and evaluation of orbital debris shielding, lethality/survivability for theater missile defense systems, and characterization of Kinetic Energy penetrator ...

Digantara will integrate its proprietary optical sensor technology into the Orbital Servicing Vehicle ... India-Australia space mission to manage debris in space. Digantara will join a clutch ...

Credit: Sierra Space Sierra Space’s recent tests involved a pair of .50 caliber guns built to replicate orbital debris impacts by firing projectiles at a speed of nearly 23,000 feet per second ...

“There will be some 1,000+ PRC [People’s Republic of China] launches over the next several years deploying these constellations,” says Jim Shell, a space domain awareness and orbital debris ...