space junk
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 […]
European engineers have launched a satellite to clean space debris
Space Junk or space debris is a real threat to the satellites and spacecraft operating in the earth’s orbit. Many scientists and researchers are concerned about the repeatedly increasing space debris around the Earth’s orbit. So, in order to initiate the process of cleaning space junk, European engineers have sent a demo space debris cleaning […]
Space Pollution: Out of control Tiangong-1 is just a start, end is more scary
Out of control, Chinese satellite Tiangong-1 is about to crash on Earth soon at an unknown place, revealed European Space Agency (ESA). Scientists are tracking the movement of the satellite weighing 19,000 pounds that will meet its doom within the first week of April. Moving at a speed of 17,500 miles per hour, the space […]
Japanese Space Junk Collector Face Nuisance
An experimental instrument, intended for collecting the garbage from earth’s orbit has run into deep trouble and scientists are now in hurry to troubleshoot the glitch as soon as possible. The investigational space junk “collector” designed and operated by Japanese space agency (JAXA) and fishing net company is reported to face some troubles in its […]