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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. A WEEK IN ORBITAL HOARDING
    36/2026

    🌐️ CATALOGED OBJECTS IN ORBIT: 35,005 (+150)
    🛰 Active spacecraft: 17,026 (+149)
    💤 Nonoperational spacecraft: 3,011 (+2)
    🚀 Rocket bodies: 2,425 (+4)
    ❓ Unknown objects: 55 (+1)
    🗑️ Debris >10 cm: 12,488 (-6)

    27 cataloged objects were officially confirmed as reentered since the last update.

    #Orbit #Satcat #CelesTrak #Satellite #SpaceDebris #SpaceJunk #OrbitalHoarding

  10. A WEEK IN ORBITAL HOARDING
    35/2026

    🌐️ CATALOGED OBJECTS IN ORBIT: 34,855 (+36)
    🛰 Active spacecraft: 16,877 (+39)
    💤 Nonoperational spacecraft: 3,009
    🚀 Rocket bodies: 2,421
    ❓ Unknown objects: 54
    🗑️ Debris >10 cm: 12,494 (-3)

    27 cataloged objects were officially confirmed as reentered since the last update.

    #Orbit #Satcat #CelesTrak #Satellite #SpaceDebris #SpaceJunk #OrbitalHoarding

  11. "What SpaceX has demonstrated so far is no doubt impressive. But there is no guarantee future constellations will be so refined or that SpaceX will maintain its current standards as it seeks ever increasing growth. Ultimately we might find that the capacity of Earth orbit, rather than being in the millions of spacecraft, may not be much more than the number of #satellites already in orbit today."

    scientificamerican.com/article

    #Space #SpaceEnvironment #SpaceDebris

  12. RE: mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/

    “When a #satellite demises, it's still there in the #atmosphere in the form of small particles of #aluminum, and we don’t know what these particles actually do in the atmosphere.” Most of this destruction happens at altitudes between 60 and 80 kilometers—too high for balloons 🎈 and planes to reach, but too low for satellites to sample.

    #Ignorosphere #SpaceDebris #University #Stuttgart

  13. And here you can read all about the "Zero Debris Approach" and the rules for that, that are binding for all missions and satellite constructions : esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_Deb

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    #ThanksEU #ThanksESA #SpaceDebris

  14. For loads and loads of information on space debris, you should take a look at the dedicated page at esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_Deb from the European Space Agency.

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    #ThanksEU #ThanksESA #SpaceDebris

  15. While Elon Musk dumps a used car in space, an upper stage on the moon and burns hundreds of throw-away satellites in our atmosphere, Europe has strict rules on minimal impact of space debris and is researching how to do a Space Cowboys like cleanup system.

    projects.research-and-innovati

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    #ThanksEU #ThanksESA #SpaceDebris

  16. A WEEK IN ORBITAL HOARDING
    34/2026

    🌐️ CATALOGED OBJECTS IN ORBIT: 34,819 (+28)
    🛰 Active spacecraft: 16,838 (+29)
    💤 Nonoperational spacecraft: 3,009
    🚀 Rocket bodies: 2,421 (+1)
    ❓ Unknown objects: 54 (+4)
    🗑️ Debris >10 cm: 12,497 (-6)

    20 cataloged objects were officially confirmed as reentered since the last update.

    #Orbit #Satcat #CelesTrak #Satellite #SpaceDebris #SpaceJunk #OrbitalHoarding

  17. #Reentry debris has fallen on both private and public property around the world multiple times since 2021. Trunk debris from the Crew 7 mission to the #ISS has landed in #NorthCarolina, and fragments from the Crew 1 mission landed in #NewSouthWales, #Australia. Similarly, debris from the Axiom 3 mission landed in #Saskatchewan, #Canada.

    In 2025, 4,500 objects launched, meaning 20% of all objects launched into space since the 1950s were launched last year. theconversation.com/falling-sp

    #SpaceDebris

  18. A WEEK IN ORBITAL HOARDING
    33/2026

    🌐️ CATALOGED OBJECTS IN ORBIT: 34,791 (+45)
    🛰 Active spacecraft: 16,809 (+49)
    💤 Nonoperational spacecraft: 3,009
    🚀 Rocket bodies: 2,420 (+2)
    ❓ Unknown objects: 50
    🗑️ Debris >10 cm: 12,503 (-6)

    22 cataloged objects were officially confirmed as reentered since the last update.

    #Orbit #Satcat #CelesTrak #Satellite #SpaceDebris #SpaceJunk #OrbitalHoarding

  19. Video of the plume from the SpaceX upper stage crash on the moon posted by Jose Maria Madiedo at the Astrophysics Institute of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC).

    Probably taken at the Sierra Nevada Observatory at Loma de Dilar (2,896 m altitude) in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in the province of Granada, Spain.

    nitter.net/jmmadiedo/status/20
    iaa.csic.es/
    h/t @Ohsin

    10/n

  20. 📆 July 5, 1969 Japanese diplomats revealed that a small Japanese freighter 🚢 was hit 💥 by wreckage from a Soviet spacecraft while cruising near the coast of Siberia. The Japanese Government 🇯🇵 apparently had decided not to make a public disclosure of its finding because it did not want to provoke an incident with #Moscow nytimes.com/1969/07/05/archive

    Symbolic image : commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

    #SpaceDebris

  21. These incidents are becoming so common that the #Australian 🇦🇺 #SpaceAgency has put together a trio of steps to take if suspected space debris is discovered.

    "Very often they will be made of something like titanium which is really good at surviving. Just don't let them randomly reenter. Bring them down via controlled reentry and then if they are survivable it doesn't matter because you dump them somewhere where there aren't any people" 🤕 space.com/space-exploration/la

    #SpaceDebris #SpaceRegulation

  22. 🇵🇱 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

  23. 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

  24. SpaceX Rocket Stage Set to Impact Moon After Drifting in Space

    📰 Original title: Watch a SpaceX Rocket Crash Into the Moon

    🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
    👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

    View full AI summary en.killbait.com/spacex-rocket-

    #astronomy #spacexrocket #lunarimpact #spacedebris

  25. 📦 DELIVERY NOTIFICATION: Oversized package 2025-010D is out for delivery TODAY.

    🚀 Driver: SpaceX
    📐 Package: 13.8 m x 4 m, 4900 kg hollow cylinder
    📍 Drop-off: Near Einstein Crater, The Moon
    ⏰ ETA: 06:35 UTC

    Delivery Note: Contactless delivery confirmed via 2.43 km/s impact. No signature required. Package may be slightly flattened or atomized.

    How did we do? Please rate our delivery driver! 👇

    #SpaceX #Falcon9 #LunarImpact #Object2025010D #SpaceDebris

  26. 2026-08-05 01:00:00 UTC (Delta: 24 hours)

    WHERE IS 2025-010D?
    - Discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage on lunar intercept
    - Geocentric speed: 1.29 km/s (+0.02 km/s)
    - Lunar impact in: 5 hours

    ⚪ Relative to Moon
    - Distance: 20,065.70 km (-56,089.99 km)
    - Lunar distance: 0.05 LD (-0.15 LD)
    - Light travel time: 0.07 s (-0.19 s)

    🌎 Relative to Earth
    - Distance: 355,827.52 km (+31,327.45 km)
    - Light travel time: 1.19 s (+0.10 s)

    #SpaceX #Falcon9 #LunarImpact #Object2025010D #SpaceDebris

  27. SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket's Lunar Impact Raises Concerns for Future Moon Missions

    📰 Original title: The SpaceX Falcon Lunar Crash Is a Warning for Moon Bases

    🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
    👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

    View full AI summary en.killbait.com/spacex-falcon-

    #science #spaceexploration #lunarmissions #spacedebris

  28. A WEEK IN ORBITAL HOARDING
    32/2026

    🌐️ CATALOGED OBJECTS IN ORBIT: 34,746 (+28)
    🛰 Active spacecraft: 16,760 (+40)
    💤 Nonoperational spacecraft: 3,009 (-2)
    🚀 Rocket bodies: 2,418 (+2)
    ❓ Unknown objects: 50 (-1)
    🗑️ Debris >10 cm: 12,509 (-11)

    27 cataloged objects were officially confirmed as reentered since the last update.

    #Orbit #Satcat #CelesTrak #Satellite #SpaceDebris #SpaceJunk #OrbitalHoarding

  29. 2026-08-04 01:00:00 UTC (Delta: 24 hours)

    WHERE IS 2025-010D?
    - Discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage on lunar intercept
    - Geocentric speed: 1.27 km/s (-0.04 km/s)
    - Lunar impact in: 1 day

    ⚪ Relative to Moon
    - Distance: 76,155.26 km (-49,403.17 km)
    - Lunar distance: 0.20 LD (-0.13 LD)
    - Light travel time: 0.25 s (-0.16 s)

    🌎 Relative to Earth
    - Distance: 324,500.75 km (+19,285.19 km)
    - Light travel time: 1.08 s (+0.06 s)

    #SpaceX #Falcon9 #LunarImpact #Object2025010D #SpaceDebris

  30. "For now, people are more likely to be struck by lightning than by falling space junk. But those odds are shifting. Sean O’Keefe, a former NASA administrator, ... and other experts say that governments and companies should be compelled to use materials that will fully disintegrate. No such regulation exists."

    nytimes.com/2026/07/31/world/a

    #Space #SpaceDebris #SpacePolicy #SpaceLaw #SpaceSustainability

  31. #Starship executed a landing flip, landing burn, and soft splashdown, coming to rest intact in the Indian Ocean 🌊 and providing critical views of an #intact heatshield for the first time spacex.com/launches/starship-f

    If you believe you have identified a piece of debris, please contact the #SpaceX #Debris Hotline at 📞 1-866-623-0234 or at ✉️ [email protected] spacex.com/launches/starship-f

    #SpaceDebris #PressOffice #FreedomOfInformation

  32. According to the #ESA, 14.5 million kilograms of man-made stuff circles the planet today. Compare that to 11 million kg two years ago and 8.9 million kg in 2020—a 63 percent increase 📈 over the past five years. “ #CollisionAvoidance is a standard practice now for every operator,” says Tim Flohrer, head of the ESA’s #SpaceDebris Office. This November, in Vienna, the #UNOOSA will be hosting a #SpaceLaw conference to tackle space debris removal spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-synd

    #SpaceRegulation

  33. Analyst on #China’s spent rocket stages: “Things only continue to get worse”

    Spent upper stages are the most dangerous kind of #SpaceDebris.

    Eric Berger – May 26, 2026

    "Further growth is anticipated from both the company’s state-owned enterprises as well as a rapidly expanding number of private launch companies. There is nothing wrong with this, as China’s rapid growth in launch has been mirrored by the United States and, in particular, SpaceX.

    "However there is an issue with these launches, as China appears to be ignoring long-established norms about disposing of the upper stages of rockets. These are the parts of the vehicle that separate from the first stage of a rocket and push a satellite or spacecraft into orbit."

    [...]

    " 'China… continues to abandon many rocket bodies in high low-Earth orbit,' Shell wrote on LinkedIn early Monday. 'The total mass of orbital debris is a key variable influencing the long-term sustainment of space. There is broad agreement that abandoning rocket body upper stages in long-lived orbits is not a best practice. In fact, all the major space-faring nations have acknowledged this.' ”

    Read more:
    arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/

    #SpaceJunk #KesslerSyndrome #KesslerEffect #Megaconstellations #DarkSkies #SpacePollution #SpaceX #LowEarthOrbit

  34. More reasons to say "No!" to #SpaceX and #Starlink (and other unnecessary satellites!).

    SpaceX rocket fireball linked to plume of polluting lithium

    Georgina Rannard, Science reporter, February 19, 2025

    Excerpts: "When a SpaceX rocket failure set the skies aflame over western Europe last February, no-one was sure if the debris was also polluting our #atmosphere.

    "Now scientists are directly linking the uncontrolled rocket re-entry to a plume of #lithium measured less than 100km above Earth.

    "It is the first time researchers have drawn a direct link between a known piece of #SpaceDebris crashing to Earth and #pollution levels.

    They warn that as SpaceX chief #ElonMusk pledges to launch one million satellites in the coming years, this #contamination could be the tip of the iceberg."

    [...]

    "Earlier research has suggested that 10% of aerosols in the atmosphere are already contaminated by space debris.

    "SpaceX has not responded to emailed requests from BBC News for comment. The researchers also sent their findings to the company but did not receive a response.

    "Almost 30,000 pieces of debris are calculated to be free-floating in space, created when rockets break up in space or satellites disintegrate.

    "Scientists warn that the debris is congesting space and threatens collision with rockets, the International Space Station, and our planet.

    "Musk's SpaceX is the world's leading company for rocket launches including for sending humans into space and maintaining a network of 10,000 Starlink internet satellites.

    "Musk recently announced he has applied to launch one million satellites to support #ArtificialIntelligence (#AI) data centres in space.

    "Scientists warn that as humans move more activities off-Earth, more debris will fall to Earth, polluting as it plummets."

    Read more:
    bbc.com/news/articles/cpd8z4eq

    #LithiumPollution #AtmosphericPollution #NoAIInSpace #NoDatacentersInSpace #LEO #KesslerEffect #SpaceJunk #DarkSkies #LowerEarthOrbit #LEO #AIBullshitMachines #TechBros #xAI #Technopoly #SpacePollution
    #AISucks #DataCenters #SkyNet #KesslerSyndrome #USPol #WorldPol #SpaceNews

  35. #SpaceX gets #FCC approval to launch 7,500 more #Starlink #satellites😱

    by Anthony Ha
    Sat, January 10, 2026

    Excerpt: "The Federal Communications Commission announced Friday that it has given SpaceX approval to launch another 7,500 of its second-generation Starlink satellites, for a total of 15,000 satellites worldwide.

    "Beyond simply allowing SpaceX to launch more satellites and expand its high-speed internet coverage, the FCC says its decision also means Starlink satellites can operate across five frequencies to provide direct-to-cell connectivity outside the United States, along with supplemental coverage in the U.S.

    "Reuters reports that SpaceX had requested approval for an additional 15,000 satellites, but the FCC said it would 'defer authorization of the remaining 14,988 proposed Gen2 Starlink satellites.'

    "SpaceX must launch 50% of the approved Starlink satellites by December 1, 2028, and the remaining 50% by December 2031, the FCC says."

    Read more:
    tech.yahoo.com/science/article

    #KesslerSyndrome #SpaceDebris #KesslerEffect #LEO
    #DarkSkies #Satellites #SpaceTrash #Landlines #SpacePollution

  36. This will guarantee #KesslerSyndrome sooner than later!😱

    As #SpaceX Works Toward 50K #Starlink Satellites, #China Eyes Deploying 200K

    China's Institute of Radio Spectrum Utilization and Technological Innovation submits filings for two constellations, each of which could support 96,714 satellites, for a total of 193,428.

    Michael Kan, January 12, 2026

    Excerpt: "To counter China, the FCC has been expediting and streamlining its satellite approvals. This includes clearing SpaceX to operate another 7,500 satellites for its second-generation constellation. The regulator has also approved plans to operate Starlink satellites at lower orbits, from 340km to 485km. Currently, Starlink has over 9,400 orbiting satellites."

    Read more:
    pcmag.com/news/as-spacex-works

    #SpaceDebris #KesslerEffect #LEO
    #DarkSkies #Satellites #SpaceTrash #Landlines #SpacePollution

  37. #Starlink satellites lift off on #SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral (video)

    By Robert Z. Pearlman, Wednesday (Jan. 14).

    Excerpt: "SpaceX added 29 more Starlink satellites to its low Earth orbit #megaconstellation today (Jan. 14).

    "A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the broadband internet relay units launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday. The rocket reached its preliminary orbit about nine minutes after the 1:08 p.m. EST (1808 GMT) liftoff."

    Read more / watch video:
    space.com/space-exploration/la

    #LEO #KesslerSyndrome #KesslerEffect #SpaceJunk #SpaceDebris #Satellites #LowEarthOrbit

  38. Around 100 nations are involved in varying levels of #space activity. Since the 1950s, almost 20,000 #satellites 🛰️ have been launched into Earth’s orbit. These satellites bring immense benefits to #society, from monitoring ecosystems and supporting global #communications, to facilitating services such as satellite #television and contactless bank card payments. However,...plymouth.ac.uk/news/a-sustaina

    #SpaceDebris #SpaceRegulation #UnitedNations #UNOOSA

  39. Don't know why UNOOSA folks aren't uploading the documents related to SpaceX debris found in Canada on their website. Notification was filed in 30 May..

    unoosa.org/oosa/en/oosadoc/dat

    Earlier they had links to documents but they were broken when I mailed them they removed them altogether.

    #SpaceDebris #SpaceX #UNOOSA