Orion Space Solutions (Orion), a wholly owned subsidiary of Arcfield, announced today a follow-on subcontract from Advanced Space to support Phase 2 of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects ...

"Do we react for everything which has a chance to reach the ground? Or do we react only for the very large objects, as we did for the Long March?" ...

European Space Agency (ESA) and ClearSpace unveiled a bold new initiative: PRELUDE, an in-orbit servicing and debris removal ...

Despite decades of warnings, governments and private companies have continued launching missions with little plan for what ...

China routinely sends astronauts to and from its space station Tiangong. A crew capsule is about to undock from the station and return to Earth, but there's nothing routine about its journey home. The ...

Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...

Airlines have long treated thunderstorms, snow and volcanic ash as the main reasons to slow or stop flights. Now a new hazard is rising from above, as fragments of rockets and satellites begin to ...

Experts are sounding the alarm about escalating space debris concerns and the urgent plan designed to prevent catastrophic disruptions to worldwide communications. Space debris threatens satellite ...

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and cloud services has led to a massive demand for computing power. The surge has strained data infrastructure, which requires lots of electricity to ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's Shenzhou-20 crewed spacecraft has delayed its return mission to Earth after the vessel was possibly hit by tiny bits of space debris, the country's human spaceflight agency ...