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Between 2008 and 2017, global space organizations launched an average of 82 orbital rockets a year. That number jumped to an average of about 130 launches a year between 2018 and 2022, according ...
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 ...
The KSA said it has taken custody of the object that landed in the remote village of Mukuku, in the southern county of Makueni, describing it as apparent space junk measuring 2.5 meters (about 8 ...
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 ...
Space junk has filled up so much of Earth's orbit that it's endangering satellites and astronauts. The company Kayhan Space issues roughly 1,000 space-collision warnings per day.
Space debris (also known as space junk, space pollution, [1] space waste, space trash, space garbage, or cosmic debris [2]) are defunct human-made objects in space – principally in Earth orbit – which no longer serve a useful function.
April 10: During descent to Earth of Soyuz MS-02 crewed spacecraft, a part of the parachute system hit the capsule during deployment, causing partial depressurization at the altitude of about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi), 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) higher than during normal operations. As the crew were wearing pressure suits, the loss of pressure didn't ...
While the odds of space debris hitting you are very, very minuscule, a large satellite is poised to smash into Earth's atmosphere Wednesday morning beginning around 11 a.m. EST. Here's what we ...