Focus: Space Debris

Millennium Space Systems, New Zealand-based launch provider Rocket Lab, and TriSept, one of the commercial space industry’s original rideshare and mission management service providers, have partnered to send small satellites...

As global space activity expands and accelerates, our space environment, naturally, becomes more congested. There have been nearly 9,000 satellites launched to date. Out of those 9,000, only 5,000 are...

The government of Luxembourg and Canadian technology company NorthStar Earth and Space are a launching a “Clean Space” initiative to foster sustainability in space. The Clean Space initiative would evaluate...

This coming March, the SATELLITE 2020 show will be establishing a consortium of more than a dozen civil space, government, military, academic, and commercial industry organizations that will work together...

The number of satellites in orbit is expected to rise considerably in the upcoming decade. More satellites mean more debris and that means a greater risk of collisions. The space...

Three months ago, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise announcement that India successfully took down a redundant satellite with an Anti-Satellite (ASAT) missile from Earth. A new report...

  Lockheed Martin is playing guinea pig for a new “space sustainability” rating scheme designed to show how well satellites comply with best operational practices such as debris mitigation. “It’s...

Over recent months, there has been a sudden wave of public awareness relating to the massive and growing problem of plastic in our seas. Mainly thanks to a remarkable BBC documentary...

NASA will fund research and development for 18 space technology concepts, including solar sails, smart space suits, and a Lunar-polar propellant mining outpost, as part of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC)...

ExoAnalytic Solutions and NorthStar Earth and Space are collaborating to develop commercial services to protect satellites and other space assets from collisions with space debris and other orbiting objects. The...