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Space debris from a Russian missile test could disrupt Elon Musk's Starlink project to beam the internet from orbit
As the debris from the anti-satellite test spreads around the world, it could knock some of the sat…
Marianne Guenot
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A Russian satellite caught shadowing a US spy satellite earlier this year launched a mysterious space weapon, US Space Command says
The Russian satellite launched a mysterious projectile during the test, which mimicked a similar te…
Ryan Pickrell
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China launches new test satellite
The Tianxing-1 test satellite was launched by a Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket at 10:08 a.m. (Beijing T…
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ESA satellite Sentinel-1A dodges a 'high-risk collision' from Russian space debris
"On Monday, for the first time, we performed a set of manoeuvres to avoid a high-risk collision wit…
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India's anti-satellite missile test may have created 6,500 eraser-size pieces of space junk near Earth, according to a new simulation
India's Defence Research and Development Organization downplayed that risk, telling Reuters that th…
Dave Mosher
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Pentagon defends India's ASAT test in front US military oversight committee
India maintains that it did not violate any international laws in conducting its sat…
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US, Russia and China with space debris in the thousands are complaining about 49 pieces from India's A-SAT test
Yet, India's debris is mere fraction of the debris left behind in space by other nations aro…
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'A terrible, terrible thing:' NASA said India's satellite destruction created so much space junk it now threatens the safety of the International Space Station
NASA called India's destruction of a satellite last week a "terrible, terrible thing" and said the …
Sinéad Baker,Sinéad Baker,Sin…
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The International Space Station swerved to avoid colliding with shrapnel from a Russian anti-satellite missile test
Debris from an anti-satellite test Russia conducted late last year threatened to collide with the I…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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A Russian missile strike put 1,500 pieces of large space junk in orbit. Even debris as big as a baseball could kill astronauts.
The debris from a Russian missile test "risks astronauts' lives" and "the interests of all nations,…
Marianne Guenot
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Mission Shakti and anti-satellite weapons: India’s space developments you need to know about
An External Ministry Statement said, "The capability achieved through the A-SAT test provides …
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What happens if you break the law in space — and 3 times people or governments have tested the rules
The Outer Space Treaty says space should be free for use by all nations and that celestial bodies s…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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US says Russia 'recklessly' destroyed a satellite with a missile, creating debris that could threaten the International Space Station
The test created 1,500 larger, trackable pieces of debris and hundreds of thousands of smaller piec…
Ryan Pickrell
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SpaceX says its Starlink satellite internet can download 100 megabits per second, and 'space lasers' transfer data between satellites
SpaceX's private beta tests are revealing Starlink satellite internet to be quite fast, according t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China and Russia could cripple the US with a space attack, but the US is pushing back
Instead, companies and the military are leveraging shrinking processors and cameras to develop cons…
Alex Lockie
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Elon Musk just shared the first images of new SpaceX satellites that could change the internet
An announcer said during SpaceX's live webcast that the company couldn't show the deployment of the…
Dave Mosher
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High-speed space junk risk prompts NASA to abruptly delay spacewalk on the International Space Station
Space junk orbiting Earth at dangerously high speeds keeps forcing the International Space Station …