The ISS just dodged part of a 20-year-old Chinese rocket
The International Space Station (ISS) had to raise its orbit on Wednesday to reduce the risk of being struck by a piece of space junk. The maneuver was carried out…
Watch the space station send the first wooden satellite into orbit
The world’s first wooden satellite has been deployed to Earth orbit from the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS Research X account posted footage of a trio of cubesats, including…
The space station just had to steer clear of more space junk
The International Space Station (ISS) had to steer clear of a piece of space junk on Monday — the second such maneuver that the orbital outpost has had to make…
The space station just had to pull a maneuver to avoid space debris
The International Space Station (ISS) was repositioned on Tuesday, November 19, to move it well out of the way of approaching space debris, NASA reported. Station operators fired the thrusters…
Watch this first-ever fly-around of a huge piece of space junk
Orbital debris removal company Astroscale says it’s achieved a technical milestone for a commercial company by conducting the first-ever controlled fly-around of a large piece of space junk. The Japanese…
ISS Astronauts Forced to Take Shelter After Russian Satellite Mysteriously Disintegrates
Fragments from a defunct Russian satellite have formed a large cloud of debris in low Earth orbit, posing a potential threat to the International Space Station (ISS) and with the…
NASA sued by Florida man whose house was hit by space junk
The International Space Station orbiting about 250 miles above Earth. NASA NASA is being sued by a man whose house was damaged by a piece of space junk that came…
NASA Is Being Sued for Dropping Space Junk on a Florida Home
A family from Florida filed a claim against NASA for a small piece of trash that the space agency had tossed from the International Space Station (ISS), which ended up…
Satellite snaps remarkable image of a huge piece of space junk
Astroscale Orbital debris removal company Astroscale has shared a remarkable image captured by the Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J) satellite. Taken from a distance of just 50 meters, the…
Possible SpaceX Debris Crashes Onto Canadian Farm
It’s raining space junk. Just one month after NASA admitted that a piece of trash tossed from the International Space Station (ISS) crash-landed through a home in Florida, a massive…