Low-Earth orbit is more crowded—and fragile—than it looks. Satellites constantly weave past each other, burning fuel and ...
New study warns rising orbital congestion increases Satellite Collision risk as Earth’s crowded low orbit grows more fragile ...
Ground-based observations suggest the former geostationary inspector satellite suffered a fragmentation event months after ...
Low Earth orbit is no longer a quiet frontier. With thousands of commercial spacecraft circling just a few hundred kilometers ...
Stargaze is basically a space traffic control platform, and comes about a month after a satellite deployed from a Chinese ...
Although the last JUMPSEAT satellite was launched in 1987 and the Cold War officially ended in December 1991, JUMPSEAT ...
A collision would occur in just 2.8 days if all satellites lost their ability to dodge each other, highlighting how crowded Earth’s orbit is becoming. In the past seven years, the number of satellites ...
There’s little about building spacecraft that anyone would call simple. But there’s at least one element of designing a vehicle that will operate outside the Earth’s atmosphere ...
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