Space is getting crowded — humans have now placed over 20,000 satellites into orbit since the start of the space age, and ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

About a fifth are inactive, simply orbiting as as space junk. Over the last couple of decades, hundreds of these dead satellites have collided to create millions of pieces of shrapnel. That ...

As global warming continues, the upper atmosphere will cool and become less dense, reducing the force which usually pulls space debris back to Earth and cluttering the orbit. MIT researchers ...

Renovating your house is exciting, but can also harm your property if you—and your contractors—aren’t careful. Here’s how to ...

DDPG-based robotic trajectory planning for space debris detumbling using eddy currents and a 6-DOF manipulator.

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The “warm” data in the middle, such as your old photos, can take a few seconds to retrieve. Most data is cold, and a lot of ...