There are roughly 1.1 million debris fragments larger than 0.04 inches and about 40,500 fragments larger than 4 inches in orbit according to the ESA. NASA states that debris can reach speeds of 18,000 ...

Despite this incessant rain of junk battering the atmosphere, the amount of space debris increased over the course of 2024, ...

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has issued a warning about all of the space junk surrounding Earth and how it could cause ...

There's something else that now appears on Google Earth. Zoom in over rural North Texas, and you'll find a satellite. It ...

These measurements are necessary for improving our ability to accurately predict satellite locations so that we can perform ...

Scientists say defunct satellites and spent rocket stages returning to Earth, from the thousands launched every year, can be ...

There was a time when putting an object into low Earth orbit was the absolute ... that don’t just carry one or two large satellites into orbit, but dozens of small ones simultaneously.

executing the first undocking of two commercial satellites in geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO) – heralding a new age of commercial space operations. Built and operated by SpaceLogistics LLC ...

Astroscale and Orbit Fab are teaming up to refuel U.S. Space Force satellites in geostationary orbit high above Earth, ...