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US satellites could face threat from Russia and China's 'unfriendly' space behavior, warn defense analysts
Russia and China are working on things that could be used to disable US satellites, raising alarms …
Ella Sherman
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America's X-37B vs. China's Shenlong: Top space planes and their shadowy role in orbital war
The US X-37B and China's Shenlong are competing unmanned space planes whose covert missions are get…
Benjamin Brimelow
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Reports of Russia building nuclear space weapons have alarmed officials, but security experts aren't panicked — yet
CNN reported that US officials have been briefed on a sort of nuclear EMP device designed to "destr…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Space debris continued to be a big problem in 2021 and it’s only going to get worse
This isn’t the only incident of the year though as there have been quite a few instances of spac…
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A dead Russian spacecraft almost collided with a NASA satellite. The crash could have sent 7,500 bits of debris rocketing around Earth.
A dead Russian spacecraft almost crashed into a NASA satellite. The collision would have sent debr…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Ellyn Lapointe
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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 …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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Russia pushes the International Space Station away from '90s US rocket debris — the 2nd space-junk scare this week
NASA and Roscosmos have to move the International Space Station away from debris that orbits Earth …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A Chinese satellite seems to have collided with a piece of a Russian rocket in March - the first big space crash in a decade
A Chinese satellite mysteriously broke apart earlier this year. A Harvard astronomer realized that …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Elon Musk says Starlink satellites have had to dodge debris from Russia's anti-satellite missile test
Russia blasted one of its satellites with a missile on November 15, creating new debris in orbit an…
Jake Epstein,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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International Space Station moved by 1240 metres to dodge space junk of a demolished Chinese satellite
The International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday had to maneuver itself to avoid being hit by C…
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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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A Russian rocket broke up in space above the Indian Ocean — leaving dangerous debris in its wake
Russia’s rocket break down is another reminder of how humanity’s space-junk nightmare could come tr…
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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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A space junk threat forced the crew of the International Space Station to take shelter
The US military said it is aware of a "debris-generating event" but did not explain further what ma…
Ryan Pickrell
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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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Russia hit a Ukrainian port city using one of its more brutal tactics, a double-tap missile strike that kills emergency workers too
Russia has carried out numerous double-tap strikes throughout the Ukraine war, and it has also empl…
Jake Epstein
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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 failed Russian rocket stage crashed to Earth in an uncontrolled reentry into the atmosphere over the Pacific
The rocket stage from Russia's Angara-A5 rocket was meant to stay in orbit for thousands of years, …