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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 debri…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Ellyn L…
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Two satellites might be headed for a collision — and there's no way to stop them
The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) and the Gravity Gradient Stabilisation Experiment (GG…
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SpaceX has denied OneWeb's claim that their satellites almost collided - and accused it of deliberately misleading the press
Elon Musk's company SpaceX said it had worked with OneWeb to avoid a satellite collision and that i…
Grace Dean
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SpaceX satellites nearly collided with China's space station twice this year, sparking online criticism of Elon Musk's 'space junk'
The two incidents, on July 1 and October 21, involved satellites from SpaceX's Starlink Internet Se…
Huileng Tan
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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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A dead Soviet satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket body just avoided colliding in space and exploding into dangerous debris
In a collision, the satellites would have exploded into a cloud of dangerous, high-speed debris — a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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SpaceX and ULA set to launch robots into orbit next year that will grab space junk and fix satellites
The robots, named after humans, are designed to perform different tasks in orbit. Meet Barry, Fred,…
Kate Duffy
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Rise in the number of satellites are threatening orbital space around Earth, say scientists
The rapid growth of the anthropogenic space object population, including satellite mega-constellati…
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NASA flags concerns about overcrowding, collisions as Elon Musk plans to send another 30,000 SpaceX satellites into orbit
NASA questioned SpaceX's claim that there's "zero risk" of a Starlink satellite colliding with larg…
Huileng Tan
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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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About 1 in 40 of SpaceX's Starlink satellites may have failed. That's not too bad, but across a 42,000-spacecraft constellation it could spark a crisis.
At this rate, SpaceX may leave more than 1,000 dead satellites in orbit, where they can crash into …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A dead NASA space telescope and an old Air Force satellite have a 1-in-10 chance of colliding over Pittsburgh on Wednesday, and people on the ground may see it
If the space-junk problem gets extreme, a disastrous chain of collisions could spiral out of contro…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A magnetic spacecraft that can attract dead satellites has entered orbit - a test in a new effort to clean up space junk
Millions of bits of junk rocket around Earth faster than bullets, threatening to collide with satel…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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An Eiffel Tower-sized asteroid is about to whiz by Earth. When it returns in 8 years, it could cross paths with our satellites.
On Friday night, the asteroid Apophis will pass by Earth. When it returns in 2029, its orbit may pu…
Aylin Woodward
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SpaceX and OneWeb satellites nearly crashed into each other in orbit, according to reports
The satellites of the US-based SpaceX and UK company OneWeb came dangerously close to colliding. 'R…
Zahra Tayeb
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Viasat says Elon Musk criticized an executive 'not involved' in the company's FCC petition against Starlink
Rival satellite company Viasat drew Musk's ire by asking the Federal Communications Commission to p…
Dave Mosher
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Watch 57,000 planned satellites swarm Earth within 9 years in a stunning new animation
For one, he said, there is plenty of space for many satellites to orbit Earth. Second, newer satell…
Dave Mosher
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India's anti-satellite missile test just moved humanity closer to a space-junk nightmare scenario
After a Chinese missile armed with a "kinetic kill vehicle" (essentially a giant bullet-like slug) …
Dave Mosher
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The European Space Agency says it had to dodge a SpaceX satellite because the company wouldn't move it out of the way. A software bug may be to blame.
"Our Starlink team last exchanged an email with the Aeolus operations team on August 28, when the p…