CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The moon is about to get walloped by a big piece of space junk. The leftover rocket will slam into the far side of the moon Friday. Experts think it is from a China launch ...
Specifically flagged by the UNEP are air pollution from launch emissions, spacecraft emissions in the stratosphere, as well ...
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Space junk hits 130M pieces, and one just cracked a window in orbit
Low Earth orbit has quietly become one of the most crowded and hazardous environments humanity has ever created, with an ...
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 ...
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Scientists build an electrostatic 'tractor beam' to move space junk safely
A dead satellite can become a high-speed hazard in an orbit that is already packed with working spacecraft. That risk is why ...
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These 2 European telescopes use lasers to track potentially dangerous space junk (video)
At a double observatory atop Mount Teide on the Spanish island of Tenerife, a powerful laser is being deployed to track fragments of space debris in orbit and warn when these fragments threaten ...
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