The US government has issued its first fine to a company for leaving junk in space. US TV company Dish Network has been told to pay $150,000 (around £125,000) for failing to remove a satellite ...
The ISS performed its 39th ever space junk collision avoidance maneuver on Nov. 19. Although it was the first such maneuver ...
For the second time in a week, the International Space Station has had to adjust its orbit in order to steer clear of a piece ...
A satellite made almost entirely out of wood, a first, reached space this week ... they linger around in Earth’s orbit as space debris. Conventional satellites are made of metal.
The International Space Station was forced to shift its orbit to avoid hitting an oncoming "piece of orbital debris." ...
The ISS had to avoid even more space junk for the second time in a week, highlighting growing concerns about crowding Earth's ...
Space agencies around the world have in previous years begun to take action to reduce and limit the amount of junk permitted ...
US authorities have issued a "breakthrough" first-ever fine over space debris, officials said Monday, slapping a $150,000 penalty on a TV company that failed to properly dispose of a satellite ...
and ever since we started launching things into orbit, that danger has often been of our own doing. As Dr. Nilton Renno at the University of Michigan explains it, a lot of space junk is moving at ...