Before we dive in, let’s do a quick review to appreciate what it actually means for an object to be in orbit. As Isaac Newton’s famous first law of motion states, an object in motion will stay in ...
Pluto's unusual eccentricity and tilt is likely due to its interactions with neighboring Neptune and other giant planets, ...
A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a ...
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China’s Secret Plan Revealed: 144 New Satellites To Keep Watch Over Earth’s Busy Orbit
A Chinese aerospace company, Geovis Insighter Technology Co. Ltd., is preparing to launch an ambitious space situational awareness (SSA) network designed to monitor orbital traffic and debris in low ...
The problem of debris in Earth orbit is getting worse. According to the European Space Agency's (ESA) annual Space Environment Report, the amount of space debris is rising quickly. We're sending ...
An experimental satellite that launched in 1974 disappeared from ground-based sensors in the 1990s, only to be found again this week. Some defunct satellites or debris can often go missing for years, ...
The growing congestion of Earth orbit has raised risks to satellites, space stations, and long-term space sustainability. The ...
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4,300 tons of space junk and rising: Another satellite breakup adds to orbital debris woes
A large communications satellite has broken up in orbit, affecting users in Europe, Central Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, and adding to the growing swarm of space junk clouding our ...
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