... disintegrated in orbit. This unexpected event caused significant communication outages across Europe, Africa, and parts of the Asia-Pacific region.#Boeing #SatelliteFailure #SpaceDebris #Technology

October 4, 1957, Sputnik 1 became the first Artificia object in space. A year later it burned up and entered earth's atmosphere leaving behind the first piece of space debris, it's R-7 rocket body. As

A harpoon designed to capture orbital junk has been successfully tested in space for the first time as part of the active debris-removal demonstration mission called RemoveDebris.

A new scan of an International Space Station module shows several hundred impact craters from "marauding" debris, according to the European Space Agency. But so far, the hull of the European

As we ramp up our endeavours into space, there is bound to be some side effects. Decades of our various activities up there in the orbit and beyond have not been without accompanying traces. There are

The European Space Agency is no longer proceeding full speed ahead with its campaign to send a 1,600-kilogram satellite into low Earth orbit to grab its defunct Earth observing Envisat and bring it back

 There are hundreds of space objects flying around in space, 24/7/365 and several thousand of them are hurtling towards earth... Most of them burn out in our atmosphere but many don't and have impacted