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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 world needs to get serious about removing debris from orbit.
Experts have estimated that there are 29,000 objects 10 cm or larger orbiting Earth. Only 7 percent are working satellites. The European Space Agency is looking at ways to mitigate the threat.
The 6th European Conference on Space Debris is being held this week in Germany.
Important cultural artifacts aren't restricted to our home planet, researchers say.
It would likely be tough for Russia to prove its case in court, experts say.
The January incident is the fourth known case of an active satellite being struck by orbital debris.
A fragment of the Chinese Fengyun 1C weather satellite, destroyed on purpose in 2007,damaged the Russian nanosatellite BLITS on Jan. 22, 2013.
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
Millions of pieces of space junk swarm around the Earth.
See our collection of space debris images and some far-out ideas to clean it up.
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.
