Startup Successfully Docks With Flying Space Junk To Start Cleaning The Cosmos
Space debris is a growing problem, both in Earth's orbit and down on the ground. One startup has brought us a step closer to ...
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Why was a piece of fruit floating inside Starship on its sixth test flight?
Anyone who watched SpaceX’s sixth test flight of its mighty Starship rocket on Tuesday will have noticed the odd sight of a banana — albeit a fake one — floating in the hold of the ...
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What Is Space Junk, and What Can Be Done About It?
the upper stages floating around space vary a good deal, from pieces of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to stages from Soviet-era Proton ...
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20,000 chunks of space debris are floating around Earth — here's what it looks like
According to NASA, about 500,000 such pieces of space debris are currently orbiting earth. This animation shows the 20,000 of pieces that are larger than a softball. Story by Jacob Shamsian and ...
Designing a satellite to hunt small space debris
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 currently be detected from the ...