Space Traffic Management / Debris Removal

AUSTIN, Texas — In a series of recent industry briefings and podcasts under the Securing the Future of Space campaign, leading experts have highlighted the critical "sovereign-commercial nexus" required to manage an increasingly congested and contested Low Earth Orbit (LEO) ...

Google’s proposed architecture targets a sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), but the density of debris in this region raises concerns regarding Kessler Syndrome, a runaway chain reaction of collisions ...

In a statement released via X, Michael Nicolls, Vice President of Starlink Engineering, announced a significant reconfiguration of the Starlink constellation, confirming plans to lower approximately 4,400 satellites from 550 km to 480 km throughout 2026. The maneuver, which affects ...

Kall Morris Inc. (KMI) recently demonstrated their REACCH capture technology onboard the International Space Station (ISS). Astrobee smallsat with KMI’s REACCH. Credit: NASA The demo launched to the ISS in early November and has undergone two operations so far, providing ...

Scientific Systems earlier this month was selected by SpaceWERX for a $1.5 million STTR Phase II contract, under the SpaceWERX Orbital Prime Program.  Scientific Solutions’ solution for US-RIPTIDE (Unknown Satellite Realtime Inspection, Pose, Tracking and IDEntification) focuses on enabling In-space Service Assembly ...

Astronaut Tim Peake said he was only ever really frightened by one major thing during his time in space: space debris colliding with the space station Astroscale Ltd., the UK subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”), the market leader in ...

LeoLabs is now ready to offer these same advanced risk monitoring ...

For the past year and a half, LeoLabs has been maturing the firm's capabilities to accurately identify and monitor potential collisions in LEO. The company activated their internal conjunction screening service in early 2019, a first of its kind system ...

Research to tackle the growing need to find, capture and remove junk from ...

But what also came up—repeatedly—were concerns about how quickly space is becoming a contested environment ...

Washington: A Boeing-made satellite is in danger of exploding and needs to be moved away from an orbital zone occupied by other big communications satellites ...

designed to track approximately 250,000 additional objects down to 2 centimeters in size that account for most of the risk of collisions in space ...

large satellite constellations will add thousands of objects to low-Earth orbit in the next ten years, increasing the likelihood of collision and posing a risk to ...

The economic growth of the space sector today requires an easier access to space for smallsats and a more rapid access to strategic orbital ...

Last week, Luch was reported by CelesTrak (which monitors satellites while on-orbit) to have moved even closer to an Intelsat craft ...

The main task of the unit will be to monitor space debris, threats of attacks or interference by other countries satellites. As the Japanese Self Defence ...

The new Space Domain Mission Unit will track space debris such as used rocket parts and old satellites that pose a threat to satellites orbiting Earth ...

Intelsat 29e had been in a geostationary orbit at 50 degrees West longitude until April 8, when the satellite began tumbling and drifting to the east. Both the ...

The two companies will collaborate on the development of new commercial services to protect satellites and other high-value space assets from ...

While it was widely reported to be a meteor shower, a Russian military early warning satellite would have been over New Zealand at the time ...