What is the Kessler Syndrome? How space junk has become an orbital threat
All of this adds up to the likelihood, the ESA warns, that a theoretical scenario known as the Kessler Syndrome could become ...
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Space Station keeps dodging debris from China’s 2007 satellite weapon test
The International Space Station had to fire thrusters ... Analysts say the most worrisome debris cloud stems from Fengyun 1C, a weather satellite that the Chinese government intentionally ...
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Military satellite breakup unleashes debris in Earth's orbit
Earth, a catastrophe occurred as reported by the United States Space Force. The military weather satellite DMSP-5D2 F14 broke ...
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Earth's orbit is so crowded that space traffic controllers issue more than 1,000 collision warnings per day
So much junk is filling ... collisions go out to satellite operators each day, Berger said. For example, Araz Feyzi, a co-founder of the orbital data company Kayhan Space, told BI in an email ...
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Chinese Satellite Burns Up, Drops Debris Over US
An amateur photographer caught the satellite coming apart ... towards Arkansas and Missouri. The debris field for an object entering our atmosphere from space can be very long and wide because ...
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What is space debris and how it can affect our life on Earth
highlighting the increasing threat of space junk in low Earth orbit. With over 10,200 active satellites and incidents like the 2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test contributing significantly ...
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Japan, India startups to study laser-equipped satellite to tackle space debris
Carved out from Japanese satellite giant SKY Perfect JSAT this year, Orbital Lasers is building a system that will use laser energy to stop the rotation of space junk by vaporising small parts of ...