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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage is set to crash into the moon, highlighting the growing hazard of space debris for future lunar bases and exploration.
This article reports on the growing risk of space debris falling to Earth. A Federal Aviation Administration study predicts that by 2035, SpaceX satellite debris could cause one casualty every two years, and explores regulatory gaps and geopolitical implications.
A Falcon 9 upper stage from the 2025 Blue Ghost/Hakuto-R mission is predicted to impact the moon on August 5, 2026. The event is of scientific interest and highlights issues of space debris.
China launched the first satellite of its Gande Constellation, a 120-satellite commercial network for round-the-clock space debris monitoring, aiming for full deployment by 2030.
Researchers in Germany are using plasma wind tunnels to simulate how satellites burn up in Earth's atmosphere, revealing that the growing number of satellite reentries could increase ozone depletion and alter the atmosphere's thermal balance.
A new European Southern Observatory study warns that proposed satellite constellations exceeding 1.7 million satellites would have devastating consequences for astronomy, recommending a limit of 100,000 faint satellites to protect night sky observations.
A Chinese rocket's upper stage broke apart in low Earth orbit, creating debris that poses a risk to the International Space Station and SpaceX's Starlink satellites.
This paper presents a graph-learning-aided optimization approach for designing active tether-net systems to capture space debris, using a GNN to recommend candidate designs and reduce mixed-combinatorial nonlinear programming to standard NLP problems, achieving faster convergence.
China's rapid increase in rocket launches is contributing to space debris because it is not following best practices for disposing of upper stages, worsening an already problematic orbital environment.
SpaceX has proposed launching one million satellites to serve as orbital data centers, drawing significant concern from scientists regarding space debris, atmospheric impact, and the preservation of the night sky.