space traffic management
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NASA Is Being Sued for Dropping Space Junk on a Florida Home
A family from Florida filed a claim against NASA for a small piece of trash that the space agency had tossed from the International Space Station (ISS), which ended up in their home. Earlier this year, a two-pound cylindrical-shaped object crashed through the roof of a family home in Naples, Florida, creating a hole in…
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Satellite’s Final Moments Captured Before Intentional Destruction
In late July, the Aeolus Earth Explorer satellite plunged through Earth’s atmosphere to burn up as scraps. Its unprecedented controlled reentry was captured through a series of images that show the spacecraft during its tumbling, fiery demise. The European Space Agency (ESA) released a new animation made from the last eight images taken of Aeolus,…
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Upcoming Orbital Test Could Enable Tracking of Super Tiny Space Debris
ODIN Space has passed a major milestone by powering up a super-sensitive experimental in-space sensor. Once fully developed, a dispersed network of these sensors could be capable of tracking hypervelocity objects no larger than a grain of sand. The sensor technology, installed on the D-Orbit ION satellite, launched into space on June 12 as part…
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Suspected Debris From Chinese Rocket Falls Onto Three Indian Villages
An area on the western coast of India has been hit by fragments of space debris that may have been a result of a Chinese rocket re-entering the atmosphere and breaking up into smaller pieces. Sadly, this is becoming an all-too-familiar story.