John Travolta made a surprise appearance at a “Grease” sing-along at the Hollywood Bowl dressed up as his beloved character, ...

Starlink already dims its spacecraft in visible light by tipping solar panels away from Sun reflections. A similar hardware ...

Here, among the arid desert sands of Las Cruces, Sierra Space wanted to see in real-time how its proprietary space station skin handles direct impacts from micrometeoroids and orbital debris (MMOD).

Samantha Harvey’s Booker-winning “Orbital” has an inviting premise and lyrical prose but tends to ... Earth’s pageantry is breathtaking, from the “apricot desert of Takla Makan” to Santiago “in a ...

The amount of debris in orbit around Earth is increasing rapidly. The European Space Agency (ESA) estimates there are more than 40,000 pieces larger than 10cm in orbit, and more than 130,000,000 ...

A new Japanese mission to photograph space junk from orbit marks a milestone in orbital debris cleanup efforts. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

That’s because the life spans of orbital debris vary depending on altitude. Below 200 kilometers, it may only last a few days, whereas those at 1,000 km can last up to a thousand years.

ISRO’s recent mission tackled this, leaving ‘zero orbital debris.’ Here’s a look at how and why this is significant. May 15, 2025 e-Paper. LOGIN Account. eBooks Subscribe GIFT FRONT PAGE.

Debris from a Chinese ... unforeseen meteors — what onlookers saw at 1:40 a.m. was the expected “reentry of the Shenzhou 15 orbital ... the crew landed safely in the Gobi Desert in June. The ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate has passed a bill that would direct NASA to create an orbital debris remediation program, sending it on to the House for the second time. The Senate passed by unanimous ...

An orbital inspection mission like the one envisioned by Starfish “can serve as a valuable precursor to many missions, including active debris removal,” Bennett said. The contract’s monetary ...