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The Astronomical Problem of Space Junk

Dan Falk: Space junk broadly refers to stuff that’s in space that was put there by humans, and that is no longer doing what ...
"A single collision could have catastrophic long-term consequences," the authors explain, and we would not have long to avoid ...
High up in Earth's orbit, millions of human-made objects large and small are flying at speeds of over 15,000 miles per hour.
Satellite breakups and anti-satellite tests have created an alarming amount of debris, a crisis now exacerbated by the rapid expansion of commercial constellations such as SpaceX’s Starlink. The ...
Google's Project Suncatcher is a proposal to launch an 81-satellite constellation into low Earth orbit. But it must contend ...
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and cloud services has led to a massive demand for computing power. The surge ...
Earth’s orbit is getting crowded with broken satellites and leftover rocket parts. Researchers say the solution is to build ...
Scientists unveiled some unusual information about space. A group of researchers and astronauts, find that Earth’s orbit is ...
A powerful solar storm could scramble communications, leading to a destructive scenario for satellites, known as Kessler ...
While space explorations are important, the missions do result in pollution. However, experts might have a solution for this ...