The satellite company NanoAvionics released images online showing the damage to its MP42 satellite, launched in 2022 and ...

Here in South Florida, we are used to strange stories. One example from this year: a “Florida Man” made a claim against NASA ...

Spacecraft could soon be powered by space junk collected in orbit with a new engine that runs on scrap metal.British tech ...

But regulations on how people behave in space are piecemeal and the main international law, the UN’s 1967 Outer Space treaty, is more than 50 years old. There’s now a huge amount of junk, or space ...

Christopher Fluke works for Swinburne University of Technology. He has previously received funding from the SmartSat CRC, including funding to support a research collaboration with CGI Australia ...

30 blue whales of space junk 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 ...

ESA is promoting the Zero Debris Charter, which aims to increase international efforts and cooperation to solve Earth's growing space junk problem. And the agency now has attracted well over 100 ...

along with 34,000 pieces of large space junk and millions of smaller pieces. That debris has the potential to damage critical components on working satellites, such as solar panels, reducing their ...

The 22-nation agency is spearheading one of several efforts to roll back the mass of space junk swirling round the planet from past missions that poses a risk to active satellites. Aschbacher said ...