Wyo., and John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., led their colleagues in introducing the Orbital Sustainability (ORBITS) Act to create a first-of-its-kind program to reduce the ...

HOUSTON—Four U.S. senators have reintroduced bipartisan legislation to establish a demonstration initiative for the commercial removal of orbital debris, an increasing threat to satellites and ...

Orbital debris: a national security threat that hits home Imagine waking up to find that your mobile device’s location-based services, like Google Maps, are not working. Flights are grounded and ...

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 ...

Orange County-based aerospace firms Terran Orbital Corp. and Turion Space are among a dozen ... It already boasts a $1.9 million U.S. Space Force contract to develop ways to clean up space debris, ...

Tracking exoplanets via orbital mechanics isn't easy. Plenty of variables could affect how a planet moves around its star, and determining which ones affect any given exoplanet requires a lot of ...

We'll have to wait a bit longer for the first-ever launch of an Australian orbital rocket. Queensland-based company Gilmour Space had aimed to debut its Eris rocket today (May 15), but a problem ...

Update for 5:30 p.m. ET on May 14: Gilmour Space announced on May 14 that it's no longer targeting a launch on that date, due to an issue detected with the ground support system. The next ...

China’s military has warned that a plan by the US Space Force to deploy “orbital carriers” will accelerate an arms race in space. In a commentary published on Thursday by the PLA Daily ...

The payload fairing at the top of Gilmour Space's first Eris rocket was supposed to deploy a few minutes after lifting off from northeastern Australia. Instead, the nose cone fell off the rocket ...