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
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
