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NASA Reveals That the Most Powerful Space Telescope Won’t Escape From Collisions With Space Debris

After a long wait and many delays, NASA finally released the James Webb Space Telescope on Christmas Eve, 2021. There’s no wonder why Webb is considered the most powerful telescope ever built. It may not be just a way of…

January 11, 2022 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Mysterious Space Debris Makes NASA Delay Spacewalk

Unfortunately, space debris trapped in the Earth’s orbit doesn’t represent anything new. Experts are even concerned about the huge amount of junk revolving around our planet and belonging to damaged and broken space gear. But NASA has now delayed its…

November 30, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Chinese Military Satellite Collides With Space Junk

With so much space junk revolving around the Earth above the atmosphere, there’s no wonder how some of it collides with satellites. It also happened the same with Yunhai 1-02, a Chinese military satellite. The US Space Force’s 18th Space…

August 18, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

Space Debris Damages the International Space Station

Plenty of astronomers have raised the alarm in the past about the high amount of space debris that wanders above the Earth’s atmosphere at high speeds. Any space mission in such an area poses a risk, and a good cleansing…

May 31, 2021 · by Cristian Antonescu · 0

The Fourth-Biggest Piece of Space Debris fell into the Atlantic Ocean

Besides working and necessary satellites, our planet is surrounded by a dense cloud of space debris. The problem with the junk we’ve left behind in space is that they can and they do cause accidents. The space debris consists of…

May 13, 2020 · by Asheley Rice · 0

Space Debris Might Cause Toxic Splashdowns

The environmental effects of more and more rocket stages that drop into the oceans of the world containing toxic fuel are being studied by a global agency that sets rules for the seas. Accordingly, space debris might cause toxic splashdowns,…

March 25, 2019 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0

Mysterious “Empty Trash Bag,” Spotted In the Earth Vicinity

A mysterious “empty trash bag” has been spotted in the Earth vicinity, and it puzzles the scientists. The strange space object is floating above the Earth’s atmosphere, and it is about seven-meter across, but it’s quite lightweight, meaning that its…

January 31, 2019 · by Vadim Caraiman · 0

Space Debris Is Again A Subject Of Debate For Scientists, Companies, NASA, And ESA

With all that frenzy surrounding the fall of the Chinese Tiangong-1 space station, the scientists started to reignite the debates on space pollution and the measures to be taken to regulate it. Sometimes invisible to the human eye, space debris can…

March 31, 2018 · by Jeffrey Olmsted · 0