Dish botches satellite deorbit, gets hit with FCC’s first space-debris fine Old TV satellite's graveyard orbit isn't high enough, poses orbital debris risk.

Debris from the broken-apart Intelsat 33e telecom satellite is spreading across geosynchronous orbit, threatening spacecraft in this precious region of space, an animation shows.

Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

The International Space Station came under threat from satellite debris again in 2024, and this time, the crew was at serious risk. In June 2024, a defunct Russian satellite broke up in orbit ...

The satellite company NanoAvionics revealed that a chickpea-sized object hit its MP42 Satellite, and provided evidence. It's not clear if it was space debris or a micrometeoroid impact.

China’s Shijian-21 and Shijian-25 satellites, known as SJ-21 and SJ-25 for short, likely docked together in geosynchronous ...

Astronomers are puzzled by a strong burst of radio waves traced back to a NASA satellite that had been inactive since the ...