FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Space junk such as debris from rockets must be removed from the Earth's orbit to avoid crashes that could cost satellite operators millions of euros and knock out mobile and GPS networks, the European Space Agency said. Full story
They say the simplest ideas work best. Now British engineers have come up with a way of clearing up space junk, using an orbiting harpoon. Tom Clarke Channel Four Europe reports.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A new EU-wide system to track satellites could help reduce collisions with orbiting space debris, crashes that cost operators millions and could knock out mobile and GPS networks. Full story
A U.S. telescope will hunt for space junk in the skies above Australia under a new defense agreement. The Space Surveillance Telescope is capable of scanning an area of space the size of the United States in seconds as it searches for small space debris that may threaten military satellites in orbit Full story
Time is running out to get serious about fixing the problem of space debris, experts say. Full story
An enormous Earth-observing satellite that was officially declared dead in space Wednesday may stay in orbit for the next 150 years, posing a threat to other spacecraft zipping around our planet. Full story
After orbiting the earth nearly 80,000 times, NASA’s satellite became “space junk” when it fell out of orbit somewhere over the remote North Pacific. NBC’s Lee Cowan reports.
NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is coming back to Earth, and there's a 1 in 3,200 chance that it will hit someone, but what are the chances it will hit YOU? Michael Eric Dyson talks with Dr. Paul Ceruzzi of the National Air and Space Museum about how much "space junk" actually orbits the
There's too much "space junk" in our planet's orbit, according to the National Academy of Sciences. At least 22,000 objects floating in the Earth’s orbit could damage spaceships and satellites. NBC’s Harry Smith reports.
Six astronauts took to lifeboats as orbiting space junk came dangerously close to their space station. Although there was no collision, Lark Howorth and his team of NASA engineers who monitor the space station's orbit and movements said there was not time enough to perform a "debris avoidance moveme
There were a few nervous moments in space, when it seemed some space junk got a bit close to the International Space Station. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
PRECISING NATURE OF FALLING OBJECTA meteorite trail is seen above a residential apartment block in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk, on February 15, 2013. A heavy meteor shower rained down today on central Russia, sowing panic as the hurtling space debris smashed windows and injured dozens of stunned
Human-made orbital debris threatens use of Earth orbiting spacecraft.
