The European Space Agency (ESA) has issued a warning about all of the space junk surrounding Earth and how it could cause ...

NASA launched a spacecraft on a mission to rendezvous with a small communications satellite. The launch went according to ...

The ESA is calling for urgent action.Every year, one satellite is destroyed by a space junk collision. Combined with increasing frequency of commercial space launches, which now account for most ...

Novaspace, the space consulting and market intelligence firm, has released its Space Situational and Domain Awareness Market ...

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be ...

Starlink satellites orbit approximately 342 miles (550 kilometers) above Earth and put on a spectacular show for observers as ...

GomSpace, a Danish smallsat maker, announced plans April 8 to integrate space traffic management tools from Portugal’s Neuraspace into its satellite operations platform to help avoid collisions in ...

Nine in 10 useful satellites are located in an area called low Earth orbit — as is most of the junk. Objects in this zone move at about 17,000 miles per hour, making it hard to avoid collision.

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN)-- Two satellites, one Russian and one American, have collided some 800 kilometers (500 miles) above Siberia, the Russian and U.S. space agencies, said Thursday. The collision ...

Description: The main objective of the CAST project is to develop a 2-dimensional testbed that demonstrates that a high relative closing velocity satellite collision can be avoided using onboard ...

Description: SPECTER is a ground based autonomous tracking, detection, and alert system for satellites in geosynchronous orbits. This system will provide a low cost user friendly environment to ...

More than 130 million pieces of space debris orbit Earth. If just one piece collides with a spacecraft, it can disrupt ...