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US scientists to detect tiny 1 cm-long ‘grenades’ with Space Debris Hunter satellite
Millions of tiny objects, invisible to the current tracking systems, are hurtling through orbit at incredible speeds of about ...
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Space Junk Is Threatening Earth And Scientists Are On Edge About It
As the years pass, humanity is sending more junk into space than ever before and scientists are on edge because it poses a ...
Astroscale aced the world’s first rendezvous with a piece of space junk
There's a scene in the film Interstellar where Matthew McConaughey's character flies his spaceplane up to meet a mothership ...
SpaceX rocket debris crashes into Poland
The pyrotechnics were in fact caused by a Space X Falcon 9 rocket re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. There are reports of ...
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When is an asteroid not an asteroid? When it's Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, it turns out.
The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The company sent the car (with a spacesuit-clad mannequin ...
Debris from SpaceX rocket creates fireball over Europe, crashes into yard in Poland
SpaceX . The skies over Europe saw a dramatic fireball yesterday as debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket made an uncontroll ...
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Satellites provide internet access and a lot more, but the skies are getting crowded
Joe Supan, senior writer at CNET, recently looked at how satellites connect rural and remote areas to the digital world. But ...
Falling space debris could increasingly affect airline traffic, research finds
A new study from researchers at UBC found that the chance of debris entering air space around major cities is as high as 26 per cent each year.
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Earthquake sensors could help track a different threat: Falling space debris
The Shenzhou-15 module is one of many objects that have uncontrollably hurtled to Earth in recent ... falling space junk injuring or killing a person worldwide was around 4 percent.
UBC researchers say space junk has increasing potential to disrupt air travel
Large, uncontrolled space junk reentering Earth's atmosphere has the increasing potential to disrupt air travel, if affected ...
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Can ocean-floor mining oversights help regulate space debris and mining on the moon?
Pending international discussions on space traffic management, space debris removal, and limiting so-called space junk in Earth orbit could ... activities in and around moon orbits do not include ...