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A number of scholars have observed that systemic factors, political, legal, economic, and cultural, are the greatest impediment to the cleanup of near-Earth space. There has been little commercial incentive to reduce space debris since the associated cost does not accrue to the entity producing it.
The ClearSpace-1 (ClearSpace One) mission is an ESA Space debris removal mission led by ClearSpace SA, a Swiss startup company. The mission's objective is to remove the PROBA-1 satellite from orbit. The mission aims to demonstrate technologies for rendezvous, capture, and deorbit for end-of-life satellites and to build a path to space junk ...
The larger piece of space debris had carbon fiber composite and honeycomb structure, weighing nearly 100 pounds (45 kg). It was part of the Axiom 3 Dragon trunk section that reentered on 26 February over that region. [55] [56] On 21 May 2024, a fragment of reentered space debris was found in Haywood County (North Carolina, US). The charred ...
Kenya Space Agency (KSA) said the object, a metallic ring roughly 8 feet in diameter and weighing some 1,100 pounds, crashed into Mukuku village, in Makueni county, on December 30 at around 3:00 ...
e.Deorbit was a planned European Space Agency active space debris removal mission developed as a part of their Clean Space initiative. [2] [3] The launch was planned for 2025 on board a Vega launch vehicle. [1] [4] [5] Funding of the mission was stopped in 2018 [6] in favor of the ClearSpace-1 mission, which is now under development. [7]
RemoveDEBRIS was a satellite research project intending to demonstrate various space debris removal technologies. The mission was led by the Surrey Space Centre from the University of Surrey with the satellite's platform manufactured by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL).
June 27: Shortly after discovery of Resurs-P1 breakup, at 00:45 UTC the space station crew was instructed to shelter in their spacecrafts as a precaution in the event of collision with the debris. About an hour later, "safe haven" was released, and crew returned to their normal operations.
The Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) is an inter-governmental forum whose aim is to co-ordinate efforts to deal with debris in orbit around the Earth founded in 1993. The primary purposes of the IADC is information exchange on space debris research activities, facilitating opportunities for joint research, and reviewing ...