The space around our planet is becoming increasingly cluttered with debris that threatens satellites and the International ...

Called ALBATOR, the 3.9 million Euro ($4.6 million USD) early-stage concept is examining non-kinetic methods to move space ...

NASA's new research reframes orbital debris as a financial risk, quantifying the economic impact of collisions and mission ...

Scientists are studying how sensors designed to detect nuclear tests could help track space junk and meteorites crashing down in the world's most remote regions. Across the world, dozens of ...

Space debris became inevitable after the first satellite, Sputnik I, was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. Since the 1960s, the U.S. Air Force has relied on the Space Surveillance ...

Thousands of dead satellites and rocket fragments now orbit Earth at high speeds threatening the very technology we rely on ...

DGA has awarded Thales a contract to develop, deliver, and deploy a new ground-based radar system for the surveillance of low ...

When a satellite’s time ends, agencies may decide to send it further away to an altitude of 36,000 km above the Earth’s surface to the geostationary orbit, also known as the larger graveyard orbit, or ...

Space debris, comprising non-functional satellites, spent rocket stages, and fragmentation remnants, poses a significant risk to current and future space operations. The continuous growth of debris in ...

The twin Orpheus satellites would study the ionosphere to help forecast space weather disruptions that, according to a recent Lloyd’s of London report, could cost the global economy up to $2.4 ...

Just weeks ago, scientists warned that a "city killer" asteroid had a small chance of hitting Earth. While that prediction was thankfully revised, the planet may have to worry about another object ...