News tagged with orbital debris
European space freighter is destroyed after mission
A robot freighter was destroyed on Tuesday in a scheduled operation after a successful mission to supply the International Space Station (ISS), the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 21, 2011 |
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Stars help to track space junk
A team of researchers from the Royal Institute and Observatory of the Navy (ROA) in Cadiz (Spain) has developed a method to track the movement of geostationary objects using the position of the stars, which ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 27, 2011 |
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European space scout
The growing quantity of space debris is a serious threat to satellites and other spacecraft, which risk being damaged or even destroyed. A new European space surveillance system is being developed to ward ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 01, 2011 |
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International Space Station to manoeuvre to dodge debris
The Russian mission control centre has decided to manoeuvre the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday to avoid collision with space debris, Russian news agencies reported.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2010 |
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NASA's successful Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation mission comes to an end
One of NASA's orbiting sentinels is expected to return to Earth in a few days. The agency's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation (ICESat) satellite completed a very productive scientific mission earlier this year. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 30, 2010 |
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A mission to clear dangerous debris from space (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- New UK technology is set to play a major part in clearing dangerous clouds of debris hurtling around the Earth's lower orbit.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 28, 2010 |
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NASA eyes debris as Discovery nears space station
(AP) -- NASA kept close tabs on an old piece of space junk Monday that threatened to come too close to the international space station as the shuttle Discovery raced toward the orbiting outpost for a 220-mile-high ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 16, 2009 |
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