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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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NASA will hold a briefing Friday to discuss the impending fall from space of the UARS satellite.
Low-Earth orbit could be free of big pieces of space junk within 12 years.
Altius' "Sticky Boom" could grab satellites at a distance and reel them in.
A chunk of a Soviet-era satellite won't creep too close to the linked Atlantis and station.
NASA is tracking a potentially threatening piece of space junk that could fly close to the space station and shuttle Atlantis.
From the brightest object ever found to private space taxis, it was a busy week in space.
More than 500,000 pieces of space junk bigger than a marble orbit Earth.
The space junk flew by the space station at 8:08 a.m. EDT as the crew sheltered in a Soyuz.
Spaceships and satellites can encounter stormy "seas" of debris, radiation and electromagnetic fields. Europe's space situation awareness program is anchoring new technologies and procedures to keep spacecraft afloat.
The hazard of space debris is very real, so much so that DARPA has a report on how to deal with it.
Experts are sounding the alarm about the threat of space junk in the near future.
Skywatchers who have yet to spot NASA's NanoSail-D satellite, take heart -- the little spacecraft will be aloft for a few more months yet.
Pentagon's swift telescopes watch out for the watchers.
As the solar cycle ramps up, astronauts may well have more potentially dangerous encounters with space debris.
NASA now says, debris from a Chinese weather satellite won't endanger the International Space Station crew today.
A piece of an old Chinese satellite will pass the station this afternoon.
A space traffic accident only begets more such accidents.
Working together would prevent space debris collisions and misunderstandings between nations.
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