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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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Focused pulses of atmospheric gases could be fired into the path of space trash.
Space station astronauts will take shelter in Soyuz lifeboat capsules when the debris passes by within 9 miles.
Lockheed Martin's prototype system locked onto orbiting objects in a recent test.
With a bit of effort, the world could keep space junk at current levels for 200 years.
The spherical object landed near a house and damaged trees as it fell to the surface.
Aerospace firm MDA is developing a spacecraft called the Space Infrastructure Servicing vehicle to refuel satellites.
See how Switzerland plans to clean up space junk using a small claw-equipped satellite.
The Swiss CleanSpace One satellite will test ways to clean up space junk.
The Swiss Space Center is developing a satellite, CleanSpace One, to tackle the growing danger of space debris orbiting Earth. The first model will rendezvous with an obsolete satellite, grab it and disintegrate with it in a controlled de-orbit.
The sun's violent activity expands Earth's atmosphere, which increases the rate that space junk falls from orbit.
The space junk was leftover debris from China's 2007 anti-satellite test, NASA says.
The failed Mars probe Phobos-Grunt crashed to Earth on Jan. 15.
Russia's ill-fated Phobos-Grunt spacecraft has been the centerpiece of conflicting reports and conspiracy theories.
International cooperation is needed to keep space safe and secure over the long-haul, Secretary of State Clinton says.
Questions still surround the precise location of Phobos-Grunt's fall.
Phobos-Grunt re-entered Earth's atmosphere over the southern Pacific Ocean.
Exactly where the Mars probe Phobos-Grunt will crash is unknown.
Stories, videos, photo galleries and more about the doomed spacecraft.
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