ESA’s Zero Debris Vision sets six priority goals: preventing debris release, ensuring clearance at end-of-life, preventing ...

Earthquake sensors can detect sonic booms generated by reentering space debris to help track the potentially dangerous ...

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

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 ...

A massive solar storm can trigger the low Earth orbit to collapse into Earth.

A self-destructing robot will be sent into orbit on the world's first space cleanup mission, European scientists announced Monday, a fresh approach to fixing up the galaxy's junk graveyard. Our orbit ...

Researchers have discovered that the same sensors used to detect earthquakes are the key to tracking the growing swarm of space junk plummeting toward Earth.

ClearSpace, an in-orbit services company, and the European Space Agency (ESA) have started their Prelude mission. This is ...

MILAN — The European Space Agency and Luxembourg’s ClearSpace announced Jan. 12 a new collaboration on an in-orbit servicing removal mission called PRELUDE, one that will involve two small spacecraft ...

Earth's orbit is getting dangerously crowded with space debris, raising the risk of satellite collisions and global ...

Earth's orbital environment is becoming increasingly crowded. Thousands of satellites—many of them inactive, damaged, or out of fuel—now circle the planet alongside fragments of debris from past ...

Astroscale UK has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the agency’s IRUS (In-Orbit Refurbishment and Upgrading Service) project.