Collisions are a growing risk as space gets more crowded, and greenhouse gas emissions could make things worse. Greenhouse ...

Apple and SpaceX may be on a satellite communications collision course with Elon Musk’s firm attempting to block Apple from ...

A near-miss earlier this year between NASA's TIMED spacecraft and the Russian Cosmos 2221 satellite was even closer than originally thought: The two objects whizzed by each other less than 10 ...

Satellite operators need better space weather models to maximize the life of their satellites and to avoid collisions in low ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...

The Russian satellite was launched in 1993 and had been out of service at the time of the collision, Roscosmos said. The U.S. satellite was part of the Iridium global mobile communications system ...

A recent 5.1 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar exacerbates devastation from a prior 7.7 magnitude tremor, leading to over 1,600 ...

Starlink collision risk SpaceX received additional backlash in September 2019, when the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that it had directed its Aeolus satellite to undertake evasive ...

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 ...

The NTSB issued its preliminary report on the midair collision between a passenger plane and helicopter over Washington, D.C., in January.

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 ...