Earthquake sensors can detect sonic booms generated by reentering space debris to help track the potentially dangerous ...
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Scientists crack breakthrough way to track killer space junk before it hits Earth
Space agencies have long struggled to predict where large chunks of space hardware will come down, often with error bars that ...
L ast February, debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set the skies of Europe ablaze before crashing down to Earth in Poland, ...
Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments ...
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NASA reimagines space junk as an economic equation: How a new cost lens could save the future of orbit
In recent years, the rising congestion in Earth’s orbit has become one of the most pressing challenges facing space-faring nations. Thousands of inactive satellites, rocket fragments, and ...
A large cloud of tiny fragments revolves around Earth following satellite explosions, rocket stage malfunctions, and anti-satellite missile testing. These fragments—some as small as grains of ...
Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...
Tiny chunks of space debris are believed to have struck the return vehicle of a Chinese crew of astronauts who were due to return to Earth following a mission at the nation's Tiangong space station.
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