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 ...

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 ...

SpaceX's January Starship launch out of Texas was a fiery event that ended with the rocket exploding and bringing ... were the latest places to have space junk trashed on their home, Starship ...

Part of a Chinese rocket that launched the Yunhai 3 satellite ... Collisions with space debris or micrometeorites can create more junk. Many spacecraft operators currently take steps to prevent ...

and hurl space junk into the atmosphere is progressing rather nicely. The orbital garbage truck recently completed the rendezvous phase, parking next to a second stage rocket that’s been ...