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  1. 46,590 tracked objects, another 1.2 million we can’t see: The mess humans have created in space

    A piece of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket slammed into the Moon on August 5 after drifting through…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Falcon9rocket #Moon #spacedebris #spacejunk #spaceX #spacexrocketmooncollision
    newsbeep.com/us/838123/

  2. 46,590 tracked objects, another 1.2 million we can’t see: The mess humans have created in space

    A piece of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket slammed into the Moon on August 5 after drifting through…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Falcon9rocket #Moon #spacedebris #spacejunk #spaceX #spacexrocketmooncollision
    newsbeep.com/us/838123/

  3. 🇨🇳 At a perigee of about 396 kilometers and an apogee of 482, the leftover pieces should reenter the atmosphere within a few years.

    The breakups are becoming a pattern for the #LongMarch6 family. A 6A stage from 2022 left 533 catalogued fragments, and a 2024 event produced more than 700 pieces.

    #China wrote stage-disposal rules in 2023 that call for deorbiting and passivation of spent hardware, yet the failures keep coming spacesecuritynews.com/leolabs-

    #SpaceDebris

  4. 🇨🇳 At a perigee of about 396 kilometers and an apogee of 482, the leftover pieces should reenter the atmosphere within a few years.

    The breakups are becoming a pattern for the #LongMarch6 family. A 6A stage from 2022 left 533 catalogued fragments, and a 2024 event produced more than 700 pieces.

    #China wrote stage-disposal rules in 2023 that call for deorbiting and passivation of spent hardware, yet the failures keep coming spacesecuritynews.com/leolabs-

    #SpaceDebris

  5. 🇨🇳 At a perigee of about 396 kilometers and an apogee of 482, the leftover pieces should reenter the atmosphere within a few years.

    The breakups are becoming a pattern for the #LongMarch6 family. A 6A stage from 2022 left 533 catalogued fragments, and a 2024 event produced more than 700 pieces.

    #China wrote stage-disposal rules in 2023 that call for deorbiting and passivation of spent hardware, yet the failures keep coming spacesecuritynews.com/leolabs-

    #SpaceDebris

  6. 🇨🇳 At a perigee of about 396 kilometers and an apogee of 482, the leftover pieces should reenter the atmosphere within a few years.

    The breakups are becoming a pattern for the #LongMarch6 family. A 6A stage from 2022 left 533 catalogued fragments, and a 2024 event produced more than 700 pieces.

    #China wrote stage-disposal rules in 2023 that call for deorbiting and passivation of spent hardware, yet the failures keep coming spacesecuritynews.com/leolabs-

    #SpaceDebris

  7. 🇨🇳 At a perigee of about 396 kilometers and an apogee of 482, the leftover pieces should reenter the atmosphere within a few years.

    The breakups are becoming a pattern for the #LongMarch6 family. A 6A stage from 2022 left 533 catalogued fragments, and a 2024 event produced more than 700 pieces.

    #China wrote stage-disposal rules in 2023 that call for deorbiting and passivation of spent hardware, yet the failures keep coming spacesecuritynews.com/leolabs-

    #SpaceDebris

  8. Chinese reconnaissance satellite breaks up in rare retrograde orbit

    HELSINKI — A Chinese satellite launched into an unusual orbit early this year has suffered an apparent fragmentation…
    #NewsBeep #News #Space #China #debris #LongMarch6A #Science #SN #spacedebris #UK #UnitedKingdom #Yaogansatellites
    newsbeep.com/uk/760352/

  9. 🇵🇱 February 2025 "The important thing is that no-one was harmed," police spokesperson Andrzej Borowiak said.

    A similar piece of debris was discovered in a forest near the #Polish village of Wiry bbc.com/news/articles/c62z3vxj

    #LookUp #SpaceDebris #SpaceRegulation

  10. 2025 the #US #SpaceForce issued alerts for ~820 objects entering the Earth’s atmosphere, compared to 110 a decade ago. Huge objects weighing a metric #tonne or more arrive about once a week.

    > 300 rockets launched last year, ~four times as many 📈 as a decade ago. Companies should be compelled to use materials that will fully disintegrate. No such #SpaceRegulation exists.

    A one-minute error in predicting re-entry changes the landing zone by around 500km 📏 irishtimes.com/world/2026/08/0

    #SpaceDebris

  11. Is that all? Only ~1 Ton per week?

    Last year, the U.S. Space Force issued alerts for nearly 820 objects entering the Earth’s atmosphere.

    “Re-entries happen each and every day,” "Huge objects weighing a metric ton or more arrive about once a week" according the space collision experts.

    While much of the debris incinerates in the atmosphere or splashes into the Pacific, but when it does not - it can land anywhere and on one can predict where.

    SpaceX indicates ~5% of the mass of some of its satellites may not disintegrate when they "de-orbit". nytimes.com/2026/07/31/world/a

    I wrote about Satellite Collision Avoidance systems here: techaptitude.substack.com/p/sa

    #Space #SpaceJunk #SpaceDebris #EarthOrbit #LEO #LowEarthOrbit #SSA #SpaceSituationalAwareness #Satellites #Deorbit #FCC #Regulations

  12. RE: mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/

    #Starlink is doing one collision avoidance maneuver every two minutes on average. Starlink recently announced they’re moving down to 350 km, shifting #satellites 🛰️ to even lower orbits. Everybody has to go through that really dense shell - including #ISS, including #astronauts.

    #SpaceDebris #KesslerSyndrome #SolarStorm

  13. After 53 years in orbit, the Soviet-era Kosmos 482 spacecraft made an uncontrolled reentry into Earth’s atmosphere on May 10, 2025, over the Indian Ocean. Originally intended for a Venus mission in 1972, the craft became long-term space debris due to a launch failure.

    #Kosmos482 #SpaceDebris #Reentry #SovietSpacecraft #SpaceSafety #SpaceJunk #EarthOrbit #TECHi

    Read Full Article Here :- techi.com/soviet-spacecraft-ko

  14. 🇩🇪 #MarbleImaging multispectral camera 📹 will be used to generate high-resolution #Earth 🌏 observation 👀 data

    #BerlinSpace #ElectricPropulsion system for small #satellites 🛰️ for #orbital manoeuvres and #SpaceDebris 🗑️ prevention

    #HighPerformance #SpaceStructure Systems brake sail ⛵ to allow a small #satellite 🛰️ to re-enter after the end of its mission to prevent #SpaceDebris 🗑️.

    #InSpacePropulsion Technologies qualification of two chemical ⚗️ #propulsion systems with green ✅ propellants ⛽ for small satellites 🛰️ for rendezvous manoeuvres and to avoid #SpaceDebris 🗑️.

    #Airbus will test an #ElectricPropulsion system for small #satellites 🛰️ that uses an alternative propellant – iodine.

    #QuantumGalactics development trial of a #CyberSecurity 💻 test system to prevent the failure of a #satellite 🛰️ due to cyber-attacks.

    #iABG is developing an #AI 💻 payload that ensures the resilience of AI models directly on the sensor or #satellite 🛰️.

    dlr.de/en/latest/news/2023/04/

    #DLR #German #AerospaceCenter

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    Astrophotography
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