PARIS — The October launch of a U.S. meteorological satellite and six microsatellites was a model of how mission managers can minimize the production of orbital debris, NASA said. The post-mission ...

As the number of satellites in orbit continues to climb, so does the risk of their remnants falling back to Earth, and into ...

The European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) published this week an analysis of the global efforts to mitigate the proliferation of space debris. In the report, the institute found that space debris ...

As the number of satellites in Earth's orbit continues to rise, the issue of space debris has become a critical concern for the sustainability of space exploration and utilization. SpaceX's Starlink ...

At closing speeds reaching 50 thousand km per hour, even the smallest bits of space debris can cause serious harm to spacecraft; larger ones cause catastrophe. Near-Earth missions, like the ...

Rendering of the ClearSpace-1 spacecraft capturing the Vespa in orbit. Image credit: ClearSpace. A test mission that involves cleaning up a piece of space debris by grabbing and moving it with a metal ...

In 1957, Soviets launched Sputnik-1, the first artificial satellite ever sent to orbit, ushering in the beginning of the Space Age. This year marks the 65th anniversary of this launch. Now, many more ...

As space becomes increasingly crowded, the invisible threat of orbital debris is turning into one of the biggest challenges ...