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
By Staff Writers, Published by Space Daily, 25 October 2021 Bethesda MD (SPX) - Over the last several years we have been yelling and screaming about the existential threat of space debris on our ability to conduct space commerce, but the world is not listening. Instead, several organizations continue to
By Staff Writers, Published by Space Daily, 9 September 2021 Warwick UK (SPX) - New ways of tackling the threat that space junk in our skies poses are being explored by University of Warwick scientists, as they pioneer new research that could help the UK fulfil its ambition to become
By Tara Copp, Published by Defense One, 25 August 2021 Need to track, detect objects driving need for new space domain awareness investment. U.S. Space Command is tracking almost 35,000 objects in low Earth orbit, a 22 percent increase from just two years ago, Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting, the head
By Tereza Pultarova, Published by Space.com, 27 August 2021 The ELSA-d spacecraft of Japan-based startup Astroscale has successfully captured a simulated piece of space junk, completing the first phase of a demonstration mission that could pave the way for a less cluttered future in orbit. Launched on March 22, ELSA-d
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By Karl Grossman, Published by CovertAction Magazine 25 August 2021 Imagine this scenario from the year 2045: The U.S. and China, after years of belligerence, go to war over control of the Taiwan straits; most of the battles are fought through cyber-attacks and space-based weapons systems that had been perfected
By Florina Spinu, Published by Autoevolution, 23 August 2021 Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing company, has successfully demonstrated the ability to safely and quickly de-orbit a satellite by using its Terminator Tape Deorbit Module, a lightweight solution for end-of-mission disposal of satellites that helps ensure the long-term sustainability of space
By Adam Smith, Published by The Independent, 20 August 2021 Once Starlink launches its full 12,000 satellite network it will be involved in 90 per cent of all close approaches, which experts say is ‘getting out of control’ SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are responsible for over half of all near-collisions in
