Some high-density airspace regions could have as high as a 26% of being affected by an uncontrolled rocket body reentry.
As rockets soar into the cosmos, a hidden danger lurks above us. Space debris, remnants of our celestial ambitions, threatens ...
Large, uncontrolled space junk reentering Earth's atmosphere has the increasing potential to disrupt air travel, if affected ...
Scientists predict that there are currently more than 30,000 pieces of space junk orbiting above the Earth, and some are ...
"While the probability of being hit by a falling piece of space debris is very low currently, with over 36,000 objects (and rising) bigger than a phone in orbit the probabilities will increase ...
This increased activity inevitably means more debris." Of particular concern is what astronomers call the Kessler syndrome. "This theory suggests that as space launches increase, we could reach a ...
It turns out the object was a piece of space debris that had re-entered the atmosphere, according to Facebook post by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic ...
“While the probability of being hit by a falling piece of space debris is very low currently, with over 36,000 objects (and rising) bigger than a phone in orbit the probabilities will increase o ...
The rapid increase in satellite deployments raises ... and encouraging technological innovation — can be directly applied to space debris,” Quinn told SpaceNews via email.