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Japan takes the lead in cleaning up orbiting space junk dw.com 6 hrs ago Julian Ryall (Tokyo) As many as 900,000 hazardous pieces of space junk are presently circling around the Earth. Japanese companies are testing innovative solutions to eradicate the threat. © picture-alliance/dpa/ESA Space agencies around the world are developing satellites to get rid of space junk Fragments of man-made debris are currently orbiting the Earth at speeds of up to 8 kilometers per second, posing a serious hazard to satellites and even manned spacecraft, such as the International Space St...

Cleaning up cosmic litter On March 22, Astroscale launched its End-of-Life Services by Astroscale (ELSA-d) demonstration craft on a Soyuz rocket that took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It is the first commercial mission "to prove the core technologies necessary for space debris," Okada said.  How does the clean up work? ELSA-d is made of two satellites that have been stacked atop each other, a 175-kilogram (385-pound) servicer satellite and a client satellite that weighs 17 kilograms. The servicer vehicle is equipped with proximity rendezvous technologies and a magnetic do...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is pushing the target date for the debut launch of its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket from late 2021 to late 2022.

The government turned off the money spigot, and now OmegA will never see the light of day.

NSR Report: In-Orbit Satellite Servicing and Space Situational Awareness Represent a $6.2 Billion Opportunity GEO Life Extension and LEO De-Orbiting Drive Revenue, while Active Debris Removal and Space Situational Awareness Expand Market CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NSR’s In-Orbit Servicing & Space Situational Awareness Markets, 4 th Edition (IOSM4)  report, released today, forecasts In-Orbit Satellite services (IoS) cumulative revenues of $6.2 billion by 2030. While growth is anticipated across all applications, GEO Satellite Life Extension is expected to generat...