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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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Right now, orbiting the Earth, human-made space debris bits number in the 10's of thousands. And the threat multiplies, even if no new rockets are launched. The director of a new IMAX documentary speaks about it.
Russia's failed mission to the Mars moon is set to crash back to Earth in early 2012. The potential debris area includes populated land masses. Probabilities weigh in favor of a water landing but there is no way to know for certain.
Authorities don't know what it is or where it came from.
Flying in space is tough work, and these missions found out the hard way.
A look at the most memorable events in spaceflight from 2011.
A lot of spacecraft went up this year, and a few came crashing back down.
End of a Shuttle era, on-orbit & launch failures, space station completion, and private space growth highlight an exciting year in spaceflight.
Experts are predicting that Phobos-Grunt could fall to Earth in early January.
A piece of metal debris has crashed through the roof of a Massachusetts furniture warehouse. The FAA is investigating what it fell from.
A piece of safe debris is no longer a threat to the International Space Station or its three-man crew.
According to Dr. Marco Langbroek (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) the satellite performs "what is known to observers as a disappearance trick". The U.S.'s Lacrosse 5 satellite has a tendency to suddenly lose brightness. Russian space junk is also observed.
The German ROSAT satellite fell to Earth over the Bay of Bengal, but it is not known if any pieces survived.
The German ROSAT satellite broke up in the atmosphere when it fell to Earth today.
The German ROSAT satellite is expected to fall some time tonight or early tomorrow morning.
Germany's doomed ROSAT satellite shed 30 big pieces of debris when it falls from space this weekend.
The German ROSAT satellite could fall to Earth today or Sunday.
Skywatchers Ralf Vandebergh and Marco Langbroek snapped amazing views of the doomed satellite ROSAT.
A dead German satellite will likely fall to Earth this weekend.
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