The United States government has handed out its first-ever fine to a private company that left space debris in orbit. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a $150,000 fine to satellite television provider...
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Boeing Starliner new astronaut taxi has landed safely back on Earth, wrapping up its long-anticipated and crucial demonstration mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The Boeing Starliner capsule landed at...
A European satellite that has been scrambling to escape premature death in Earth’s atmosphere due to bad space weather has narrowly avoided a collision with a random piece of space debris. Swarm, the satellite...
Changes in Earth’s atmosphere resulting from climate change are working against efforts to clean dangerous space debris out of orbit around Earth.On the surface, that might be great news for satellite makers, who want...