Falling space debris is increasingly threatening airplanes, researchers say
Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth could pose an increased threat of striking aircraft as it falls from space, ...
Toronto Star3 天
Space debris is cluttering our orbit. Can falling space junk hit a plane?
About 30 metres long and weighing as much as 23 tonnes, the booster — part of China’s efforts to build its Tiangong space station ... of the largest pieces of debris re-entering in the ...
Deccan Chronicle5 天
OMG! Too Much of Space Junk
Humans are littering space with thousands of satellites, which pose a risk to climate and the environment, space ...
Phys.org3 天
Robot grippers could be used to remove space debris
The experimental grippers demonstrated autonomous detection and capture techniques that may be used to remove space debris and service ... the International Space Station. The system consists ...
Richmond News3 天
Falling space junk poses growing threat to aviation, warns B.C. researcher
The new study found there's a 26% chance the threat of space junk could shut down a crowded airspace in Europe, Asia or North ...
CBC.ca2 天
Falling space debris could increasingly affect airline traffic, research finds
A significant exception is that large pieces of the American space station Skylab did come ... odds of an individual aircraft being hit by a piece of debris are extremely low, somewhere in the ...
Castanet3 天
Falling space junk poses growing threat to aviation, warns B.C. researcher
“What we're kind of heading towards, I think, is potentially having more and more disruption, or maybe someone on the ground gets hit by space debris, and then we'll see some action on the issue ...