Grist on MSN1d
Earth’s orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are making the problem worse
This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Earth’s orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are ...
Hackaday6y
Space Garbage Truck Takes Out The Trash
Some of the larger debris in orbit But since the 1960’s or so, the area of space ... “garbage truck” missions. In the coming years, we may see similar spacecraft that rove around Low Earth ...
Climate change could affect Earth's orbit and litter space with 'millions of pieces of junk'
Scientists have warned that greenhouse gas emissions will result in less space junk being burned up – and more debris ...
BGR6y
This space harpoon might finally be the answer to all the junk floating around Earth
NASA and other space agencies around the world have accomplished ... to do away with space junk. This harpoon system (as well as the net-based capture option) snags the trash and then drags ...
ExtremeTech on MSN2mon
What Is Space Junk, and What Can Be Done About It?
Credit: NASA According to the European Space Agency (ESA), more than 170 million pieces of space junk are currently ...
The Sun20d
Watch space wreckage CRASH into Earth before smouldering ‘unidentified’ debris is probed in Roswell-style scenes
INCREDIBLE footage shows wreckage from space hurtling towards the Earth before part of it crashes into a garden in Poland. The burning debris came from Elon Musk's Falcon 9 space rocket that ...
Business Insider6y
Europe plans to save space travel and remove trash debris
Demonstrate how we could remove space debris that's cluttering ... a million chunks of space trash flying around our planet, and most of it is concentrated in low earth orbit, where it whips ...
BBC4mon
Space debris
Debris from a Space X Falcon 9 rocket lit up skies across Europe before crashing into Poland. The flaming ball was possibly the remains of a rocket booster, an astronomer says. The Kenyan ...