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Scientists want to use a self-consuming rocket to help control the space junk problem

Thu, 01/11/2024 - 16:08

3 researchers standing next to rocket engine prototype — The researchers and their prototype.
University of Glasgow

Science, speed-desk, Space, space-junk, space-debris, UK, uk-space-agency

4 times NASA astronauts lost things in space

Sat, 11/11/2023 - 05:22

image of astronauts in suits in space outside space station — Jasmin Moghbeli (top) and Loral O'Hara (bottom) performing maintenance outside the international Space Station.
NASA TV

Science, Space, Space, NASA, Astronauts, Cosmonauts, international-space-station

In a first-ever for space junk, Dish Network was fined $150,000 for leaving a retired satellite to orbit indefinitely in the wrong place

Mon, 10/02/2023 - 22:22

space junk debris field earth orbit esa — An illustration of space junk. Satellites and debris are not to scale.
ESA

Science, Space, space-debris, FCC, dish-network, satellite

NASA awarded $850,000 to a company that wants to pick up space trash the old-fashioned way — with bags

Sat, 09/23/2023 - 05:12

space junk debris field earth orbit esa — An illustration of space junk. Satellites and debris are not to scale.
ESA

Science, Transportation, science-freelance, Space, space-trash, space-debris, Astronaut

Photos show European satellite tumbling to its fiery doom after a first-of-a-kind maneuver that prevented a lot of space trash and falling debris on Earth

Fri, 09/08/2023 - 17:17

Illustration of the Aeolus satellite in space. — Aeolus was the first satellite to study winds on Earth at a global scale.
European Space Agency

Science, speed-desk, Space, satellites, european-space-agency, space-trash, space-debris

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