The Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has developed an innovative system to detect and characterise orbital space debris ...

A newly tested detection system captures micrometeoroid and debris strikes, providing impact data before damage appears.

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has developed and tested a micrometeoroid and orbital debris (MMOD) detection and ...

Old satellites and debris pose a danger to space travel. An international research team with participation from Würzburg is ...

The resupply flight is part of the normal rotation of cargo and crew missions that keep the space station operating. The ...

Two astronauts from the three-person Shenzhou 20 mission ventured outside Tiangong to do the spacewalk, which concluded ...

"Our distributed architecture solves a key challenge in orbital debris removal by enabling the deorbit and reentry of multiple large debris objects sustainably and economically." ...

Astroscale's ADRAS-J mission completed fly arounds of a Japanese H-IIA rocket upper stage in 2024. The imagery would expect ...

According to the European Space Agency (ESA), over 1,200 fragments of satellites and rocket components re-entered Earth’s ...

Thousands of satellites now orbit Earth, and collisions are piling up. Scientists warn we may already be too late to avoid ...

On Nov. 19, 2024, the International Space Station shifted its orbit to avoid another piece of space debris — this time, from a destroyed meteorological satellite.

Any missions in low-Earth orbit could also be in the pathway of the debris, though the International Space Station is scheduled to be deorbited before any potential impact. Initially, YR4 was seen ...