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Latest News About Space Junk and Orbital Debris
The amount of trash in Earth orbit, from spent rocket stages, broken satellites and micrometeoroids, is growing. Scientists are working on methods to combat the threat of space junk and orbital debris collisions.
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The Russian nanosatellite was struck on Jan. 22 by space junk from China's 2007 anti-satellite weapon test.
On Jan. 22, 2013 debris from a Chinese anti-satellite test collided with a Russian satellite called BLITS.
The shootdown of the spy satellite USA-193 sparked talk about the graveyard of outer space, which is crowded with some 17,000 spent rocket stages, dead or dying satellites and countless crumbs of human-made orbital flotsam. An average of one object has re
See our collection of space debris images and some far-out ideas to clean it up.
Millions of pieces of space junk swarm around the Earth.
A new proposal would establish a European space junk-surveillance program.
The European Union is funding research and developing technology to remove debris from decommissioned satellites, launch 'left-overs', and collisions in space. This video looks at the EU's approach to collecting space junk.
The proposed spacecraft could hop from one piece of junk to the next without burning much fuel.
The Sunjammer will help test out technology that could be useful for space weather forecasting and interstellar travel.
The Iridium-Cosmos crash and the Chinese anti-satellite test are still being felt.
A new video serves as a progress report for DARPA's Phoenix program.
A truly international approach to cleaning up space junk is desperately needed, experts say.
The winners programmed testing satellites that maneuvered in the cabin of the International Space Station.
The satellites spat dust clouds and maneuvered through space junk fields.
China could be planning an anti-satellite test as soon as Jan. 11, analysts say.
