More and more satellites are being added to low Earth orbit (LEO) every month. As that number continues to increase, so do the risks of that critical area surrounding Earth becoming impassable, ...

The ISS's orbit is slowly decaying. While it might seem a permanent fixture in the sky, the orbiting space laboratory is only about 400 km above the planet. There might not be a lot of atmosphere at ...

Sustainability in space and the fight against the accumulation of waste produced in Earth orbit are the objectives pursued by PERSEI Space, a company whose partners include two researchers from ...

Although momentum exchange tethers may not be quite as well known as electrodynamic tethers (EDTs), NASA still believes they have an important role to play as a low-cost method of sending spacecraft ...

A massive cloud of space junk—containing more than 23,000 pieces larger than 10 centimeters across—is currently zooming around Earth with an average speed of about 36,000 kilometers per hour. And as ...

TriSept completes integration of Dragracer with a Rocket Lab Electron rocket launching in November. Credit: TriSept Corp. A pair of nearly identical cubesats built by Millennium Space Systems could ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—Boeing-owned Millennium Space Systems says last month’s early re-entry of an experimental spacecraft successfully demonstrated the ability of deployable tape technology to ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. TOKYO - Japanese space scientists are set to trial a tether they hope will help pull junk out of orbit around Earth, ...

A team of university graduate students and faculty from Tennessee, with the help of NASA engineers, have “launched” a subscale spacecraft model and caught it in mid-air with a unique rendezvous or ...

A cable that's as long as six football fields has been launched into orbit — and when it's deployed, it'll test an idea to knock out orbital debris. Japan's space agency sent the electrodynamic tether ...