As a result, the risks of space junk crashing back onto land is rising. In the case of a fragment of a Dragon ship that crashed ... for teams to improve debris modeling. NASA and SpaceX will ...

While SpaceX has continued its breakneck pace of launching from the Space Coast and California, small rocket company Rocket Lab continues to solidify its role as the second busiest launch service ...

Falling space junk produced by rocket launches poses a risk to the aviation industry—with a roughly one-in-four annual chance that a piece of debris will pass through busy airspace. This is the ...

A Russian Progress cargo ship that's docked to the ISS fired its ... complex dodged a potentially dangerous piece of space junk. "The Pre-determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver (PDAM) was conducted ...

The breakup of a Chinese rocket following a satellite launch generated a fresh field of debris—and new concern over Beijing’s attitude toward space junk. The Long March 6A rocket, launched Aug ...

You can get in touch with Robyn by emailing [email protected] Three pieces of space junk that fell on sheep farms in rural Australia were from a SpaceX rocket, the Australian Space Agency has ...

The upper stage is from an H-2A rocket that flew the GOSAT Earth observation satellite. It’s about 36 feet long with a 13-foot diameter. ADRAS-J will observe the space junk as part of the ...