In 2020, the European Space Agency signed a contract with Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA to "purchase a unique service: the ...

Given the mounting number of objects in orbit, this is likely to be a more regular occurrence. It's costly in terms of damage ...

Space around Earth is filling with discarded hardware, shattered fragments and derelict satellites just as governments and companies race to launch thousands more spacecraft. The risk is no longer ...

Look in the night sky, and you’ll see planets, stars, maybe even a satellite. But what you don’t see are all the other objects floating around Earth -- also known as space junk. “Space debris put ...

The rapid increase in orbital debris, coupled with the growing demand for space-based services, has driven significant research into novel missions for debris removal and on-orbit servicing. These ...

Space debris – the collection of defunct human-made objects in Earth's orbit – is already affecting space agencies, companies ...