This week the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced that the homecoming for three of its astronauts was delayed after a ...
A backup Shenzhou spacecraft would be sent if both the space vehicles are found to be damaged. The latest incident reveals ...
Space debris became inevitable after the first satellite, Sputnik I, was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. Since the 1960s, the U.S. Air Force has relied on the Space Surveillance ...
The return of China's Shenzhou-20 crewed spacecraft, originally scheduled for Wednesday, has been postponed due to a ...
Thousands of dead satellites and rocket fragments now orbit Earth at high speeds threatening the very technology we rely on ...
The ATLAS software replaces a troublesome legacy suite to help the U.S. monitor satellites and debris in space and improve ...
When a satellite’s time ends, agencies may decide to send it further away to an altitude of 36,000 km above the Earth’s surface to the geostationary orbit, also known as the larger graveyard orbit, or ...
Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations, speaks Sept. 17 at the 2025 Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) Conference. Credit: AMOS livestream WASHINGTON — The ...
ALBATOR has a multi-million dollar grant to study touchless space junk removal. A new space debris removal project aims to blast hazardous junk out of harm's way from a distance, without the ...