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Mission to Investigate Potentially Hazardous Objects in Orbit Lifts Off Aboard Rocket Lab Electron Rocket

Micah Hanks·February 19, 2024

Aerospace company Rocket Lab has successfully deployed a satellite on a mission to inspect space junk for potential removal from orbit.

Russian Space Junk Nearly Downs Chinese Satellite

Christopher Plain·January 21, 2022

A Chinese science satellite narrowly avoided a potentially catastrophic collision with debris from an exploded Russian satellite earlier...

Earth ‘On Course’ for Saturn-Like Ring of Space Junk

Christopher Plain·November 30, 2021

Space Junk is filling Earth’s orbit so rapidly that one researcher recently said he believes we are on...

Space Junk Causes Minor Damage to the ISS’s Robotic Canadarm2

Micah Hanks·June 2, 2021

An object identified as orbital debris or "space junk" recently struck the Canadian-operated robotic arm on the International Space Station, according to officials with the Canadian Space Agency.

Is That a UFO? No, it’s Space Junk, and it Poses a Real Threat to Space Missions

Micah Hanks·April 27, 2021

A growing concern for astronauts, and for future space operations in general, is the threat posed by space junk in Earth's orbit.

orbital debris

Mission to Investigate Potentially Hazardous Objects in Orbit Lifts Off Aboard Rocket Lab Electron Rocket

Russian Space Junk Nearly Downs Chinese Satellite

Earth ‘On Course’ for Saturn-Like Ring of Space Junk

Space Junk Causes Minor Damage to the ISS’s Robotic Canadarm2

Is That a UFO? No, it’s Space Junk, and it Poses a Real Threat to Space Missions

Pentagon, Federal Investigators Say New Jersey ‘Mystery Drones’ Remain Unidentified

Drone Incursions Over New Jersey

A Former White House Official Discusses UAP and ‘Edge Science’

New Discoveries in the Deep Ocean?

The Search for ET: What Do the Best Scientists in the Milky Way Know?

The Top 3 Things From Space That Are Probably Going to Kill Us

Diary of an Interstellar Voyage, Parts 11-13: June 18, 2023