Orbital debris tracking, satellite collisions, Kessler syndrome, active debris removal, and space sustainability.
Space & LEO
Colorado awarded CU Boulder $150,000 to build a satellite-mounted sensor for the untracked sub-10cm orbital debris population threatening LEO.
Last week's G3-watch geomagnetic storm raised thermospheric drag in low Earth orbit, forcing debris operators to reprocess conjunction and reentry…
A 36-year study tracking 17 Cold War rocket bodies found a solar activity threshold at 67% of maximum above which…
SpaceX IPO Filing Warns Orbital Debris Could Render Starlink's Orbits 'Unusable' SpaceX's SEC registration statement warns that cascading debris collisions…
NASA's Aqua enters its final months—retired not by hardware failure but by orbital debris pressure. ESA data shows LEO collision…
Space Debris Hits a Tipping Point: New Study Pinpoints the Solar Threshold Where Orbital Decay Accelerates KOCHI, India — Decades…
On April 28, 2026, two Russian military satellites closed to within approximately 3 meters of each other in low Earth…
For decades, researchers at Germany's Leibniz Institute for Atmospheric Physics aimed high-powered lasers at the sky above the Baltic coast…
Satellite reentry aluminum oxide is accumulating in Earth's stratosphere. Peer-reviewed data shows a 646% increase at full megaconstellation scale.
The FCC rejected spectrum petitions from SpaceX, Iridium, and three other satellite firms in the Big LEO bands, a decision…
UK Space Agency logged 1,847 collision alerts for British satellites in March as the tracked LEO population climbed to 33,385…
Kreios Space's Plasma-Breathing Satellite Could Slash LEO Debris by Self-Deorbiting A Spanish startup says it has cracked one of orbital…
Starlink satellite 34343 fragmented at 560 km on March 29, generating tens of trackable debris pieces that could persist in…
ESA Space Environment Report: LEO Debris Density Nearing Critical Threshold as Collision Risk Jumps 20% The numbers in ESA's 2026…
ESA's Draco Mission Advances Reentry Safety Science — Terma Joins as Star Tracker Supplier The European Space Agency is building…
