There are roughly 1.1 million debris fragments larger than 0.04 inches and about 40,500 fragments larger than 4 inches in orbit according to the ESA. NASA states that debris can reach speeds of 18,000 ...

That pace shows no sign of slowing down. 2025 is expected to see a record-breaking number of launches, as a new international ...

Vanguard-1 is the second U.S. satellite launched to space. Conceived by the Naval Research Laboratory in 1955, it was ...

China’s megaconstellation launches spark debris concerns; commercial space expands; Lightyear Explorer raises funds; key ...

Despite this incessant rain of junk battering the atmosphere, the amount of space debris increased over the course of 2024, ...

We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we now have a massive orbital junk problem. The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report ...

In the intense early days of the space race, a small, unusual satellite was launched into space sixty-seven years ago.