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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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Ground-based lasers may be the key to managing the space junk menace.
Two satellite companies have announced a new deal to launch the first spacecraft to refuel other satellites in orbit.
Hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk clog the corridors of orbit around Earth.
The upcoming official strategy for protecting the nation's space assets will likely have a military focus.
Intelsat's "zombie" Galaxy 15 satellite that spent months adrift in orbit recently came back to life by resetting itself after an unprecedented malfunction.
What began as a minor trash problem in space has now developed into a full-blown threat.
The growing threat of space junk to satellites and spacecraft may need a federal Superfund solution, a new report finds.
The Perseid meteor shower may dazzle skywatchers during its peak tonight, but it poses no threat to astronauts in space, NASA says.
Scientists are working to identify which bits of orbital rubbish to pluck from the heavens first. But a new study suggests they're fighting an uphill battle.
NASA is tracking a piece of Chinese space junk that is headed uncomfortably close to the International Space Station and may force the outpost's crew to take shelter in their Russian lifeboats as a precaution.
Two Russian cosmonauts have accidentally lost a tool in space while spacewalking outside the International Space Station early Tuesday.
The huge European satellite Envisat is possible the most dangerous piece of space debris circling the Earth for the next 150 years, experts say.
Satellite fleet operator Intelsat has successfully negotiated the passage of its out-of-control Galaxy 15 satellite across the path of its Galaxy 13 spacecraft with no signal interruption for its customers.
Dealing with space debris presents a thorny political issue that must be addressed, according to an international foundation's brief to the United Nations.
The so-called Galaxy 15 zombie satellite that lost contact with ground controllers
on Earth in April is still adrift in space, with engineers keeping a close eye on
the wayward satellite as it approaches two other spacecraft this month.
NASA is assessing the risk to spacecraft posed by the upcoming 2011 Draconid meteor shower, a seven-hour storm of space rocks that has the potential to ding major Earth-orbiting spacecraft.
A mystery object called 2010 KQ that buzzed the Earth in May is actually a piece of space junk, and not an asteroid, NASA says.
The International Space Station may have to dodge space junk this weekend, making the planned Sunday docking of shuttle Atlantis a touch more complex.
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