By Ian Sample, Published by The Guardian, 3 March 2023 Spent rocket body believed to be part of Chinese Chang’e 5-T1 mission expected to hit lunar surface at 5,500mph In an unprecedented display of cosmic littering, a wayward rocket body will crash into the far side of the moon on
By Tereza Pultarova, Published by Space.com, 27 February 2023 "It's going to be like an interstate highway in a rush hour in a snowstorm with everyone driving much too fast." Just 10 years ago, a mere thousand or so operational satellites may have orbited our planet, but there will be
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 15 February 2023 Congress directed DoD and the director of national intelligence to “make publicly available a strategy regarding defending and protecting on-orbit satellites” WASHINGTON — The Defense Department’s space policy office is drafting a congressionally mandated report explaining how the U.S. will defend
By Matthew Jenkins, Published by The Space Review, 13 February 2023 In the early days of airpower, foresighted theorists like Billy Mitchell petitioned hard to demonstrate the value that airpower could bring to the warfighting abilities of the United States. Ardently campaigning, Mitchell got permission from Congress to illustrate this
By Colm Keena, Published by The Irish Times, 9 January 2023 Fishing boats and other vessels have been warned to avoid an area off the southwest coast of Ireland from Monday night because of the danger of being hit by falling debris from a rocket due to be launched from
By Leonard David, Published by Space.com, 30 December 2022 The Philippine Space Agency warned agencies to take "precautionary measures related to expected unburned debris" from the rocket. China's last space launch of 2022, which lifted off on Thursday (Dec. 29), has prompted a warning of falling rocket space debris from
By Sarah Scoles, Published by Undark, 26 December 2021 The military is launching a fleet of small, interconnected satellites to collect data, track missiles, and aim weapons Sometime this coming March, a network of 10 small satellites winged with solar panels is scheduled to launch into Earth’s low orbit. Though
By Michael J. L. Brown, Published by The Conversation, 1 December 2022 The night sky is a shared wilderness. On a dark night, away from the city lights, you can see the stars in the same way as your ancestors did centuries ago. You can see the Milky Way and
