There’s an awful lot of junk floating around in space, with recent estimates suggesting there could be more than 25,000 objects in orbit around the Earth right now. We don’t often get to see this junk up close to find out how a lifetime in space affects man-made objects, until now. Zepbound, the weight loss …
Updated 12:45 p.m. Eastern with confirmation of contact with satellite after deployment. WASHINGTON — A Rocket Lab Electron launched an Astroscale spacecraft that will rendezvous with and inspect a spent upper stage in low Earth orbit as a precursor to removing it. The Electron lifted off from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand …
Updated Jan 16, 2024, 09:22 AM IST Enter EX-Fusion, an Osaka-based startup with a bold plan: zapping space junk with lasers from Earth. Our celestial neighbourhood is getting cluttered. Space junk, from defunct satellites to discarded rocket parts, orbits Earth, posing a growing threat to operational spacecraft and the International Space Station. Even tiny fragments, …