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What Is Space Junk, and What Can Be Done About It?
Artist's depiction of what a concentrated cloud of space debris might look like. Credit: NASA According to the European Space ...
BBC8 个月
Space junk: Falling rocket lights up sky in California
Many thought it was a meteor shower or a comet - however experts say it was a piece of space junk re-entering Earth's atmosphere, which had come from a Chinese rocket involved in a recent space ...
BBC8 个月
Japan comes face to face with its own space junk
A satellite operated by Japanese company Astroscale has chased down a 15 year-old piece of space junk and taken an up-close image of it. The object is a discarded rocket segment that's about 11m ...
Sydney Morning Herald15 天
A Sydney start-up launched a satellite to fight space junk. It’s now space junk
The 270-kilogram Optimus craft was a “trailblazing satellite to clean up space junk”, and could refuel, repair and deorbit old satellites from a critically crowded cosmos, according to Austrade.