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Aaron Leong - Fri, Jan 03, 2025
Talk about a close call! A large metal ring suspected to be space debris, measuring around 8 feet wide and weighing a hefty 1,100 pounds, crashed in a village in Kenya earlier this week. Preliminary evaluations point to a separation ring...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Sep 27, 2024
NASA has a SSPICY take on how to enable commercial inspection of defunct, or inoperable, satellites in low Earth orbit. The Small Spacecraft Propulsion and Inspection Capability (SSPICY) mission will be a precursor to capturing and...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, May 27, 2024
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a piece of space junk! A piece of space debris believed to be from a recent SpaceX mission was found in rural North Carolina. An employee of The Glamping Collective, a company that operates cabins and...
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Aaron Leong - Wed, Apr 03, 2024
A Florida homeowner had what seems like a piece of space junk rip through his roof and go through two floors. He believes it's a piece from the discarded ISS battery pallet that NASA thought would completely burn up on re-entry. Thankfully...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Mar 08, 2024
According to the European Space Agency (ESA), a 2.9-ton battery pallet was released from the International Space Station (ISS) on January 11, 2021. While most of the pallet, which comprises nine batteries in total, will burn up upon...
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Aaron Leong - Wed, Oct 04, 2023
History's first ever fine for space junk has been issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to Dish Network. This move is an early warning to other satellite operators that Congress is getting serious about space debris. Is it...
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