The company deorbited about 2.6 satellites per day between December and May, causing them to burn up in the atmosphere. It's ...

Debris from capsules and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

Dana Taylor: According to the Associated Press, there are more than 7,300 satellites in low orbit, which is where we count on our space junk disintegrating.

Space junk has filled up so much of Earth's orbit that it's endangering satellites and astronauts. The company Kayhan Space issues roughly 1,000 space-collision warnings per day.

The ISS performed its 39th ever space junk collision avoidance maneuver on Nov. 19. Although it was the first such maneuver in 2024, it may not be the last, experts say.

This mission is part of the ESA’s Zero Debris Charter initiative to stop the creation of additional space debris by 2030. Read Article > Aug 8, 2024 Jay Peters ...

The article uses the example of a hazardous conjunction event involving Q-Sat and space debris reported by online media on January 18, 2022, to analyze space debris collision warnings.

Space debris comprises decommissioned satellites, spent rockets parts, and a huge number of tiny fragments that have resulted from random collisions involving these objects.

In 2009, Iridium 33, a U.S. communications satellite, and Kosmos-2251, a defunct Russian military satellite, collided in orbit some 490 miles (789 kilometers) above Siberia.

The potential scenario of a cascade of satellite debris in low Earth orbit (the area of space within 1,200 miles or 2,000 km of Earth) is called Kessler syndrome, and was popularly depicted in the ...