A new Japanese mission to photograph space junk from orbit marks a milestone in orbital debris cleanup efforts.

Space junk just got an epic close-up. The ADRAS-J satellite, operated by the Japanese company Astroscale, successfully maneuvered to within a few hundred meters of a discarded rocket body this ...

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A satellite operated by Japanese company Astroscale has chased down a 15 year-old piece of space junk and taken an up-close image of it. The object is a discarded rocket segment that's about 11m ...

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In August 2021, the Chinese military satellite Yunhai 1-02 was struck by a piece of space junk, likely a fragment from a Russian Zenit-2 rocket launched in 1996. While such collisions remain ...

The first phase of NASA’s sustainability strategy focuses on junk in orbit around Earth. In fact, the orbital trash problem is arguably the most pressing space issue today. Nearly 10,000 ...