As Earth’s orbit becomes increasingly crowded, we need more data on how space weather impacts their reentries, researchers ...

Thousands of satellites are currently orbiting Earth, and most of them are destined to return. As the number of satellites ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) saved its satellites from collision 11 times in 2024 by performing collision ...

Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit. When they fall back down they ...

ISRO has executed 122 Collision Avoidance Manoeuvres since 2010 to protect Earth Orbiting Satellites. Enhanced analysis ...

Isro successfully performed 10 Collision Avoidance Manoeuvres (CAMs) in 2024 to protect its satellites from potential ...

Our space traffic management efforts need to improve. Researchers have found that trying to avoid collisions in orbit increases the risk of future collisions in the aftermath of each avoidance ...

Space junk has filled up so much of Earth's orbit that it's endangering satellites and astronauts. The company Kayhan Space issues roughly 1,000 space-collision warnings per day. Earth-orbit ...

The frequency of collision avoidance maneuvers that satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) make depends on their size, how populated the specific altitude is, how accurately the objects are currently ...

Satellites in SpaceX's Starlink megaconstellation made nearly 50,000 collision-avoidance maneuvers in the last six months, about double the number made in the previous half-year. Although experts ...

A near-miss earlier this year between NASA's TIMED spacecraft and the Russian Cosmos 2221 satellite was even closer than originally thought: The two objects whizzed by each other less than 10 ...