By Amiah Taylor, Published by Discover Magazine, 21 October 2022 Gone are the days of traffic jams solely being a problem for drivers on their way to work: we now have to consider satellite congestion in outer space, too. As it turns out, a growing number of active satellites is
By Jill Lupupa, Published by Sky News, 15 September 2022 The UK Meteor Network gathered more than 200 reports from eye witnesses seeing a meteorite in the sky over Wednesday night. A "brilliant fireball" which lit up the night sky over parts of Britain was space debris, experts say. The
By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 8 September 2022 WASHINGTON — The Federal Communication Commission wants to require operators of low Earth orbit satellites to deorbit their spacecraft within five years after their mission ends, a much shorter timeframe than currently required. The FCC issued a draft order Sept. 8
By David Dickinson, Published by Sky&Telescope, 8 September 2022 A recent study examines the risk posed to human life by reentering space debris as the number of rocket launches continues to grow. When Japan's Hayabusa mission returned to Earth, carrying a sample of asteroid 25143 Itokowa, the main bus of
By Chris Young, Published by Interesting Engineering, 11 August 2022 And cleaning up the resulting space debris would be like 'collecting bullets'. SpaceX's Starlink mega-constellation is growing at rocket speed. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recently announced that the private space company expects "over 4,200 Starlink satellites in operation within 18 months", constituting
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 10 August 2022 The LRDR not only will improve ballistic missile tracking for homeland defense, but also will contribute to space domain awareness, said Northern Command's Director of Operations Brig. Gen. Joey Lestorti. SMD 2022 — Northern Command is wrapping up testing of
By Natasha May, Published by the Guardian, 1 August 2022 Astrophysicist Brad Tucker says he often gets calls from people who think they’ve found space junk but the scorched metal found by two farmers is ‘very real’ The Australian Space Agency is investigating space debris found in farmland in the
By Tanmay Kadam, Published by The Eurasian Times, 10 July 2022 Chinese space scientists used an enormous space sail to deorbit a recently launched Long March 2 rocket, China’s state-owned Global Times reported on July 6. This was the first such experiment ever performed on a rocket. This deorbiting sail
