LEO constellations are potential customers for space junk removal. Credit: Kall Morris LAS VEGAS—Dealing with defunct satellites can cost constellation operators serious money, especially if a broken ...

Over 14,000 pieces of junk are clogging up low Earth orbit, but this number could be reduced by a new invention that involves a satellite using the plasma exhaust of its ion engine to knock dangerous ...

Seventy years ago, Earth had only one satellite: the Moon. Now it has more than 15,000 – about 10,000 of which are owned by ...

Cosmoserve Space's Mission Embrace will fly aboard Skyroot's maiden orbital launch to demonstrate soft robotic satellite capture technology for future active space debris removal missions ...

The technology is aimed at solving one of the biggest challenges facing the space industry today: space junk.

Space has a trash problem, with defunct satellites, rockets, and smaller broken bits orbiting the Earth at high speeds. The amount of space junk is only increasing, raising the risk of collision with ...

The Space Debris Conference 2026 commenced yesterday, featuring participation from 75 countries, along with senior officials ...

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 idea is that a removal satellite, deployed for the express purpose of removing space debris, could use a propulsion engine to spew plasma toward a piece of space junk. The force of the plasma ...

Cosmoserve Space prepares for its first flight, demonstrating innovative debris removal technology aboard Skyroot's Vikram-1 ...