Satellite eater: spacecraft «will feed on» processing of orbital debris for fuel

News Science and space 03-24-2025 at 16:21 comment
Representatives of the UK-based Magdrive company said creation of a satellite, the plant is capable of processing solid metal into fuel for its own needs.

NASA astronauts on the ISS hid from the debris of a Russian satellite — it crashed

News Science and space 06-28-2024 at 14:58 comment
American astronauts on the International Space Station were ordered to take cover for about an hour after a Russian satellite collapsed nearby. NASA reports that on Thursday evening, American crews took refuge in their spacecraft due to the satellite’s disintegration. NASA’s instruction to take cover was a precautionary measure. An hour…

Part of a Long March 2C rocket with toxic fuel crashes near a Chinese village

News Science and space 06-25-2024 at 12:29 comment
A video has appeared on the Internet showing a part of a Chinese launch vehicle falling on a settlement. Residents flee, and a thick orange cloud stretches high up from the object.

Probable remnant of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft weighing 40 kg crashed on a farm in Canada

News Science and space 05-17-2024 at 11:53 comment
Just a month after a piece of the ISS pierced the roof of a house in FloridaWe have a new case of falling space debris. This time, no buildings were damaged, as a piece of space debris landed on the fields of a farm in Canada.

Who will pay? Florida resident appeals to NASA for compensation — his house was damaged by debris thrown from the ISS

News Science and space 04-25-2024 at 09:50 comment
In March, a kilogram piece of metal pierced the roof and floor in the two-story house of Florida resident Alejandro Otero. Later it turned out that it was space debris — viz, support for the cargo pallet for batteries with a total weight of 2630 kg, which was ejected from the ISS in 2021.

Parisian startup creates a jet-powered «boxing glove» that will push space debris out of orbit

News Science and space 04-18-2024 at 15:04 comment
The spacecraft, called the Interceptor, will be launched, similar to Virgin Galactic systems, by a rocket from a specially equipped aircraft.

NASA confirms that a support for a cargo pallet that was dropped from the ISS back in 2021 fell on a house in Florida

News Science and space 04-16-2024 at 15:20 comment
The space debris was simply ejected from the station — most of it was supposed to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere, but one of the fragments «survived» and pierced the roof and floor in the two-story house of a Florida resident.

Space debris lands on Florida home — likely from the International Space Station

News Science and space 04-02-2024 at 10:03 comment
A few weeks ago, a 1 kg piece of debris broke through the roof of Alejandro Otero’s two-story house in Florida. The Nest camera recorded the noise at 14:34 local time — this is important because at 14:29, debris from the ISS re-entered the atmosphere. At that time, the object was moving over the Gulf of Mexico, heading to southwest Florida.

The ADRAS-J satellite, designed to combat space debris, has entered orbit and headed for its target

News Science and space 02-19-2024 at 13:27 comment
On February 18, Rocket Lab successfully launched the ADRAS-J satellite of the Japanese company Astroscale into space using an Electron rocket.

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