Pexels Space junk – or orbital debris, as it is more technically known – is the remnants of human-made objects that have been ...

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Experts from the Kenya Space Agency characterised it as ... before have served repeated reminders of the urgent problem of space debris. Space activity is becoming more brisk as countries are ...

At 3 p.m. on 30 December last year, residents of Mukuku village in Makueni county, Kenya, were startled by ... The quest to conquer Earth’s space junk problem These events are not isolated.

In the hours following the impact, local authorities and specialists from the Kenya Space Agency (KSA) were deployed to examine the wreckage. Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell of Harvard University ...

"Our behavior with greenhouse gases here on Earth over the past 100 years is having an effect on how we operate satellites over the next 100 years." Growing concentrations of greenhouse gases are ...

Growing concentrations of greenhouse gases are making the upper atmosphere thinner, decreasing its ability to pull space junk out of orbit. As a result, far fewer satellites will be able to safely ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — Scientists are designing a satellite and instruments capable of detecting space debris as small as 1 centimeter, less than one-half inch. Debris that small, which cannot ...

has announced that it has successfully approached a piece of orbital debris traveling at a high speed to inspect it from a distance of about 15 meters. The Tokyo-based startup developing space ...

A new study warns that the future could bring a sharp increase in space debris as satellites start to get stuck in Earth’s orbit because of climate change. The study, recently published in Nature ...