February 2021
In-orbit servicing and insurance – a marriage of convenience?
...etc), prolonging the life of existing satellites, restoring functionality and the ability to achieve profits… and, of course, debris mitigation. It is clear from this that IOS includes a full range of already well-understood space activities, as well...
07 November 2019
SSTL ships target satellite to Tokyo for Astroscale’s ELSA-d mission
... SSTL for the commitment to ELSA-d and for working together to address the ongoing buildup of hazardous space debris in low Earth orbit.” ELSA-d is scheduled to launch in 2020 on a Soyuz from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. SSTL is at the...
24 September 2019
New global Space Safety Coalition established
... published by groups such as the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), the U.N. Committee on the ... space operations and the evolving understanding of the orbital debris environment, to address gaps in space governance and promote...
17 December 2019
Earth’s doomsday scenario
... international legal order for outer space should also recognise that reckless and intentional creation of space debris is “a crime against humanity”. Prof Jakhu’s article is one of six published in this issue based on presentations at the first...
18 February 2019
Gigantic remnant found around an exploding star
... a big cloud that will eventually break down into clumps to form stars and planets. With a ring of debris spanning a staggering 400 light years, that is a lot of planet-building material to get going with [to put the...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
... environmental legacy of the first six decades of the Space Age is a vast number of defunct satellites, mission-related debris, rocket bodies and fragments of objects in orbit. Active satellites represent fewer than 20 percent of the total population...
