January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... way all of the very real threats that come to our planet from space - orbital space debris, issues related to changes to the geomagnetosphere, threats from space weather (i.e. CMEs, solar radiation flares, and depletion of the ozone layer), all...
24 September 2019
New global Space Safety Coalition established
...guidance and standards published by groups such as the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). "This unique...
17 December 2019
Earth’s doomsday scenario
... doomsday scenarios and proposes that a new 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...
16 October 2019
Astroscale takes next step toward launch of world’s first commercial active debris removal mission
...Founder and CEO. “ELSA-d is an important step in proving the technology necessary to mitigate the threat from space debris, but it is only one aspect of what Astroscale is doing to solve this issue. In addition to developing groundbreaking technology...
May 2019
Wake-up call for debris creation in geostationary orbit
...’ worth of studies, reports, papers and conferences on the subject. In those 40 years, the biggest investment in response to the space debris issue, by an order of magnitude, has been the 2013 film Gravity, a film whose grasp of the reality of the...
05 November 2018
Astroscale secures $50 million to clean low Earth orbit
... raised in this round will allow Astroscale to successfully achieve these exciting goals. Approximately 750,000 pieces of space debris over one centimeter in diameter are orbiting the Earth, threatening the safety of active spacecraft. Given this...
