As a result, startup companies like Starcloud and Lonestar Data Holdings aim to put datacenters in outer space. These facilities—designed to orbit the Earth or reside on the surface of the Moon—would ...

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 ...

JSpOC gathers this information with its "space fence" of ground-based radars and optical sensors ... could undertake debris avoidance maneuvers to relocate to safer orbital slots.

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.

“We believe the world needs counterspace systems that are adapted to the increasing hostility of orbital environments,” Clyde Laheyne, Dark’s co-founder, told SpaceNews in an intervie ...

The satellite population in low Earth orbit (LEO) is not an open book. While data on many satellites is public, others are ...

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 ...

A network of Cold War-era infrasound sensors can help scientists reconstruct trajectories of falling space objects.