The Space Sustainability Rating (SSR) system was developed to assess and incentivize responsible space operations, providing scores based on debris mitigation and collision risk reduction, and ...

which have already resulted in nearly 400 debris-generating events, according to NASA. In the last six months alone, space debris has crashed into Poland, near Turks and Caicos, and in Kenya.

The SpaceX Starship's ninth flight test on May 27, 2025, spiraled and broke apart before debris fell into the Indian Ocean.

Recent examples of space debris landing on Earth have sparked safety concerns on the ground. Space industry experts explain ...

as well as its Space Debris Office, which monitors and models the debris environment to reduce collision and re-entry. Its Space Environment Report however also points out that "current levels of ...

According to published news stories, sometime in the next week Kosmos 482 will be entering the Earth’s atmosphere uncontrolled after 53 years of being lost in a decaying orbit. This is the ...

The Tokyo-based startup developing space debris removal technologies added that it plans to start removing "space junk" from orbit by the end of March 2028. "We want to realize a service to refuel ...

This event highlights the growing concern of space junk and its potential safety and environmental risks. A chapter of space exploration history has ended with the dramatic reentry of the Soviet ...

In the first known event of its kind, a new crater has been carved into the lunar surface by a piece of space junk. Around 7:25 ... And even if this particular collision isn’t a big deal ...

And according to the European Space Agency's Space Debris Office, Kosmos 482 was last spotted over Germany before disappearing from radar, leading the office to conclude that reentry probably ...