17 November 2022
Study aims to support rocket debris recovery system
... activities is one of the current hot topics in both the UK and global launch sectors. While not strictly ‘space debris' in the traditional term, Simpson says it is important to recognise rocket parts such as fairings should not contribute to the...
03 May 2019
Debris from India's ASAT test worse than predicted
... the frame in the remarkable video captured by Deimos. The white streaks, which themselves look like trails of space debris shooting through the skies, are in fact stars. They appear as dashed lines because the Deimos observatory...
01 September 2016
Mega-constellation deployment to be discussed at IAC 2016
... University of Braunschweig. The panelists will include Dr. J.-C. Liou, NASA Chief Scientist for Orbital Debris; Dr. Holger Krag, Head of ESA Space Debris Office; Mr. Michael Lindsay, OneWeb Mission System Engineering and Analysis Lead; and Professor...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... the position of the target satellite with a sufficient degree of accuracy. Forecasting the long-term evolution of the space debris population. This figure describes the results from of a large number of Monte Carlo simulations of the long-term...
April 2017
Mega-challenges for mega-constellations
...wholly residing in or crossing the LEO region on 1 January 2013, and derived from the ESA Meteoroid and Space Debris Terrestrial Environment (MASTER) model. To study the effect of existing guidelines in view of the constellation satellite traffic and...
September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
...refuelling services is expected to grow as lunar transportation and an in-orbit economy develops Space debris poses a persistent threat to government and industry space assets, direct risks to individual satellite operators, and a growing risk to the...
