debris
Two Big Objects of Space Junk safely Past each other in Near-Miss
On 15th of October, Thursday evening, two large pieces of orbital debris and a defunct Soviet navigation satellite and a Chinese rocket body spent whizzed safely in the past each other high over the South Atlantic Ocean. The two defunct satellites, the infrared Astronomical Satellite, is the one, and the other is Gravity Gradient Stabilization […]
Japan’s Experimental Space Junk Collector Falls Flat Due To Poor Programming
An experimental space probe, which was intended for collecting space junks, has failed in carrying out its assigned tasks accurately, reported a state-run news agency. As per the announcement made by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Monday, the tentative mission for cleaning ‘space junk’ or debris from the lower orbit of the earth has […]