As Earth's low orbit fills with aging satellites and space junk, the threat of debris crashing into populated areas grows ...

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Spacecraft burn tons of fuel and leave behind debris—but a clever technique called aerobraking could fix both problems.

Kosmos 482 was part of the Soviet Union's storied Venera program of Venus exploration. The probe launched toward the second planet from the sun in 1972 but never got there; its rocket suffered an ...

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Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high speeds. Researchers are using infrasound sensors to track these objects ...

A network of Cold War-era infrasound sensors can help scientists reconstruct trajectories of falling space objects.

And as 54,000 space junk pieces larger than 10cm remain floating around the planet, the organisation adds that they are even increasing in "number and size." Other experts argue the rate of ...

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