Scientists are tracking the debris from a Tuesday satellite collision. Skip to main content. Open menu Close ... Satellites 3 big hunks of space junk crash to Earth every day — and it's only ...

An important Earth-observing satellite just experienced a heart-pounding near-miss as it moved to avoid space debris. The European Space Agency detailed the Sentinel-1A satellite's dramatic dodge ...

A three-decades old Soviet satellite has disintegrated in orbit some 870 miles (1,400 kilometers) above Earth, likely following a space debris strike.

University of Southampton. "Space debris from satellite explosion increases collision risk for space craft." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 05 / 150506084549.htm (accessed ...

The ESA is calling for urgent action.Every year, one satellite is destroyed by a space junk collision. Combined with increasing frequency of commercial space launches, which now account for most ...

This near-collision is significant because it illustrates how much space debris is floating around in low-Earth orbit. According to LeoLabs, a layer of the LEO that’s only about 62 miles thick ...

For example, it dodged a piece of Russian space junk in late 2022. But defunct items like the rocket body and satellite can't get out of each other's way. The close call is a stark reminder of how ...

Nasa space junk and Russian satellite’s near collision was much closer than thought. Satellites may have been ‘less than 10 metres’ apart when they narrowly missed each other, new analysis shows ...

Reduction of space debris collision prediction uncertainty based on Q-Sat precise orbit. Beijing Institute of Technology Press Co., Ltd. Journal Space: Science & Technology ...

On a special episode (first released on April 3, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: What happens when today’s treasure – satellites that give us access to broadband internet and accurate weather ...

The amount of space debris has not stopped increasing since the first satellite was launched in 1957. The European Space Agency (ESA) estimates that there are more than 131,000,000 useless space ...