In 2023, Odin Space successfully validated its junk-tracking technology in orbit after launching as a rideshare payload on ...

Space debris – the collection of defunct human-made objects in Earth's orbit – is already affecting space agencies, companies and astronauts. This debris includes large pieces, such as spent rocket ...

Space environment health score shows how healthy - or stressed - Earth’s orbit is expected to become over the next 200 years.

Low Earth orbit is starting to look less like pristine frontier and more like a crowded shipping lane, with fragments of old ...

One aim of the research is to help monitor the onset of Kessler syndrome — a chain reaction of collisions in space that, in turn, generates more space debris, making it far harder for satellite ...

"Equipping Arkisys spacecraft with Odin's Nano Sensors is the first move in a new era of safer, smarter, more sustainable ...

The company revealed that a Starlink satellite experienced an anomaly on Wednesday that led to a complete loss of ...

Learn how astronauts are safeguarded from hazardous space debris through innovative engineering and international ...

"A single collision could have catastrophic long-term consequences," the authors explain, and we would not have long to avoid ...

Simulation of orbital debris around Earth demonstrating the object population in the geosynchronous region. As part of NASA’s efforts to address orbital debris, the agency is funding research ...

An artist’s conception shows the Otter inspection spacecraft silhouetted against Earth as it closes in on a target satellite. (Starfish Space Illustration) Even as Starfish Space works to get its ...

Author's photo of the SLS Rocket and Orion capsule on the pad for the Artemis I launch from Kennedy Space Center in 2022. Differing from the Apollo’s simple mission of “landing a man on the Moon and ...