Low Earth orbit is starting to look less like pristine wilderness and more like a crowded shipping lane, with thousands of ...
Extreme solar activity or even a software glitch could put us just days away from a satellite collision in low-Earth orbit.
More than 120 seismometers detected sonic booms from space debris and enabled its fall to be tracked with unprecedented ...
When Sir Keir Starmer left for Beijing earlier this week, he probably didn’t imagine that a Chinese rocket would be ...
Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...
The time between tracking failure and satellite collision has dropped to days, showing how fragile low Earth orbit has become.
As space activity expands, the accumulation of man-made objects in orbit has become a critical challenge. Space debris ...
With increased orbital traffic, accurately identifying space debris has become a pressing challenge - a challenge that one ...