but he said this is the first time he’s aware of its use for tracking space debris. Fernando first tested the idea to track the controlled reentry of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in September ...

Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth could pose an increased threat of striking aircraft as it falls from space, ...

Learn about Los Alamos National Laboratory's Low Resource Optical Identifier, a device that can track satellites and prevent ...

The new study found there's a 26% chance the threat of space junk could shut down a crowded airspace in Europe, Asia or North ...

Space junk is a major threat with millions of debris pieces now in orbit. Risks range from minor collisions reducing the working life of satellites to the complete loss of life in a crewed spacecraft.

And the rocket fell. It was “one of the largest pieces of debris re-entering in the near past,” EU Space Surveillance and Tracking said at the time. Spain closed part of its airspace along the ...

Wright and his two UBC colleagues used space junk tracking data published by the U.S. military in the decade leading up to 2023. They compared the falling orbital debris with flight data from ...

but we're pretty good at tracking the larger pieces, so we at least get a warning when stuff comes down," Thresher says. The more serious threat is the space junk that stays up in low Earth orbit ...

As the years pass, humanity is sending more junk into space than ever before and scientists are on edge because […] ...