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To clean up hazardous space debris orbiting the Earth, a group of students that includes Jackie Edwards ’25 is developing ...
Space debris is becoming an overwhelming problem. Between 2019 and 2023, SpaceX’s Starlink satellites made more than ...
The International Space Station (ISS) executed evasive maneuvers Wednesday evening (April 30) to avoid a piece of passing ...
Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high speeds. Researchers are using infrasound sensors to track these objects, ...
Dark’s flagship product, called Interceptor, represents a new approach to space defense — one that mimics how military ...
Low Earth orbit (LEO) is on the verge of a major expansion in crewed operations, but the proliferation of space debris could ...
A meteor shower famous for its speedy balls of space debris that spectators can spot streaking across the night sky is due to peak in the coming days. The ETA Aquarids reliably becomes most active ...
While the limits of space may be debated, the total amount of debris in orbit near Earth is not. Space exploration and travel by the population of Earth have resulted in millions of pieces of ...
The Aquarids, a meteor shower famous for its speedy balls of space debris that streak across the night sky, is due to peak in early May. The ETA Aquarids reliably becomes most active around early ...
to avoid a piece of passing space debris. The orbit-raising burn was performed by the Progress 91 spacecraft, docked to the Roscosmos Zvezda module. Progress 91 engaged its thrusters at 6:10 p.m ...