Researchers at The University of Manchester have developed a new way to design Earth-observation satellite missions that could help protect the space environment while continuing to deliver vital data ...
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CRASH Clock: A satellite collision in low-Earth orbit could be just days away
Extreme solar activity or even a software glitch could put us just days away from a satellite collision in low-Earth orbit.
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Low-Earth orbit’s grace period before a collision has shrunk to days
In low-Earth orbit, the time margin that used to isolate routine operations and an accident has been reduced in months to ...
The time between tracking failure and satellite collision has dropped to days, showing how fragile low Earth orbit has become.
An astronomer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge is tracking a huge asteroid that could collide with Earth in a few years. Dr. Richard Binzel is a leading astronomer and ...
Earth orbit is becoming increasingly crowded. With more than 11,000 active satellites and many thousands more expected in the coming years, as well as more than 1.2 million pieces of space debris ...
SPACE (KXAN) — We’re seven years away from a possible asteroid impact on Earth. The asteroid, 2024 YR4, has a 1-in-43 chance of striking the Earth and is the size of Cinderella’s Castle at Disney ...
Russian scientists will soon meet in secret to work on a plan for saving Earth from a possible catastrophic collision with a giant asteroid in 26 years, the head of Russia's space agency said ...
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