29 March 2018
China's Tiangong-1 space lab is destined for Earth, soon!
... similar to the probability of being hit by lightning twice in the same year." Tempting as it might be to ‘safeguard’ a piece of the debris for your own purposes, should you be lucky (or unlucky) enough to come across a piece, the professional advice...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... already efforts in that direction. On the topic of space debris, Planet and Spire, the two largest commercial CubeSat operators, ...the non-binding requirements of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination committee, and NanoRacks has a vision of ...
18 May 2016
Multi-planet system hints at extra planet in its cometary belt
...Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), shows that the debris disk has an irregular inner edge and has been interpreted...a boost for astronomers hoping to understand how planets and debris discs interact. "This data really allow us to see ...
31 March 2021
A new skyglow effect produced by space objects is brightening our night skies, new study says.
...372 satellites along with many tens of thousands of pieces of space debris. Worryingly for many, this number of satellites is set to ...picture by modelling the impact of all known space debris such as spent rocket stages and decommissioned satellites. ...
14 June 2021
Space sector prepares for Sustainability Summit
... sector was asked to identify ways to quantify, classify and assess the growing problem of low-orbiting space debris, to help protect the near-Earth space ecosystem. The judges represented a range of backgrounds, including organisations such...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
... system environments or historical sites, and does not protect Earth from man-made space objects (i.e. space debris) or from the impact of large asteroids or comets (i.e. planetary defence). Members of the COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection (see...
