As NASA plans to deorbit the International Space Station by 2030, multiple private companies, including Blue Origin, Axiom ...
The demise of the ISS will usher in a new era of commercial space stations. Several companies are already developing orbital ...
The ISS is set to retire by 2030, but uncertainty over its replacement is raising concerns about a potential gap in space ...
For instance, and this would be very, very bad: a puncture wound. In the vacuum of space, the amount of debris—spent rocket stages, splintered satellites, micrometeoroids—numbers in the millions, all ...
NASA could soon be scrambling to shore up the U.S.’s presence in low-Earth orbit, thanks to a key Senate committee that wants the space agency to extend the life of the International Space Station ...
The problem of orbital debris buildup is one that the entire space-faring world has been aware of for decades. Kessler Syndrome was proposed in 1978, and though there have been some efforts to deorbit ...