Spacecrafts, spent rocket boosters and even astronauts' lost tool bags can combine with old satellites to create a halo of orbital debris that lasts for decades. Since the dawn of the space age in ...

Lopez is president of the US branch of Astroscale, a Japanese company competing for market share in the emerging field of orbital debris removal. “In the Gold Rush, it was the folks that made ...

New data analysis indicates that NASA and its partners could have more cost-effective methods for dealing with the growing issue of orbital debris than previously thought. A new report from NASA's ...

Spacecrafts, spent rocket boosters and even astronauts' lost tool bags can combine with old satellites to create a halo of orbital debris that lasts for decades. The risk of all these new objects ...

This orbital debris poses a significant threat to satellites, spacecraft, astronauts — and increasingly humans on Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Old rockets, decaying spacecraft and human operations in space leave behind orbital debris that increasingly threatens collisions, menacing a growing space economy. A decade ago the film Gravity ...

based startup has won a contract from NASA to look into an even more ambitious project to inspect orbital debris up close. The newly announced study contract follows up on earlier work that ...

Here we review what type of stuff the experts fear the most. Related: How fallen space junk could aid the fight against orbital debris Surprisingly, it's not the hundreds or even thousands of new ...

At this lower altitude, it could pose orbital debris concerns. FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief Loyaan Egal called the consent decree "a breakthrough settlement, making very clear the FCC has strong ...

Spacefaring countries have for decades been sending thousands upon thousands of satellites and other objects into orbit, where they have become an integral component of modern society. From ...