By Mike Wall, Published by Space.com, 18 November 2021 Privateer aims to characterize space junk like never before. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's startup Privateer aims to help humanity get the goods on space junk before it's too late. The Hawaii-based company, whose existence Wozniak and co-founder Alex Fielding announced in
By Paul Mason, Published by The New Statesman, 17 November 2021 The major powers are engaged in an unprecedented expansion of military power in space, but it remains dangerously covert, opaque and unregulated. On 15 November astronauts on the International Space Station were ordered to “take refuge” in the spacecraft
By Jonny Tickle, Published by Russia Today, 16 November 2021 Debris that passed close to the International Space Station is no longer a threat to the inhabited satellite, Russia’s Space Agency Roscosmos said on Monday, hours after the US claimed it was caused by a Russian missile test. The statement
By Debra Werner, Published by SpaceNews, 16 November 2021 SAN FRANCISCO – LeoLabs was alerted early Nov. 15 that something was happening in low Earth orbit. Before the Silicon Valley space mapping startup heard of the Russian antisatellite test, its global network of phased array radars detected an object in
By Chelsea Gohd, Published by Space.com, 15 November 2021 "The test has so far generated over 1,500 pieces of trackable orbital debris," a State Department spokesperson said. Russia conducted an anti-satellite test (ASAT) early on Monday (Nov. 15), generating hundreds of thousands of pieces of space debris and threatening the
By Nevin Brown, Published by Sputnik News, 15 November 2021 The United States has accused the Russian Federation of conducting a "destructive satellite test" that could put astronauts, cosmonauts, and global satellite operations at risk. Through the U.S. State Department's spokesperson, Ned Price, it was revealed that the alleged test
Debris (in red) from China's January 2007 ASAT test, seen in this visualization with other objects in low Earth orbit nearly one year later. Credit: AGI By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 15 November 2021 LAS VEGAS — A Russian satellite broke up in low Earth orbit in a deliberate
By Ramin Skibba, Published by Wired, 3 November 2021 The proposal to create a process for preventing military confrontations and misunderstandings in orbit would be the first major step in more than 40 years. On Monday, a group of diplomats from the United Kingdom proposed that the United Nations set
