That creates a constant risk of collision for active satellites and ... The increasing threat from space debris calls for both higher maneuverability in orbit and a reduction of the amount of ...

When fiery debris from SpaceX Starships rained down across the Atlantic, air traffic controllers scrambled to delay takeoffs ...

threatening to spawn local runaway space debris collision cascades. Such cascades would produce further fragment clouds that would further decrease the safety of orbital traffic. Breaking space ...

Greenhouse gas emissions could reduce drag in the upper atmosphere, leaving more space debris in orbit and making satellites ...

Climate change is altering conditions in near-Earth space, which could limit the number of satellites that can reliably ...

Collisions are a growing concern as junk builds up in space. SpaceX satellites had to perform 50,000 collision avoidance maneuvers in just the first half of 2024 to avoid other spacecraft and debris.

There is a 26 percent chance every year that an out-of-control rocket will fall through busy airspace, researchers calculate.

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The ever-growing issue of space debris worsens with each passing moment; some fragments could be on a collision course back to our planet.