space trash

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NASA Rover Discovers Weird Clump of String on Mars
Perseverance has found yet another piece of its own spacecraft on Mars.
Becky Ferreira
7.18.22
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Watch These Scientists Remotely Operate a Space Garbage Robot
Why we need space-based litter police.
Becky Ferreira
4.3.18
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Watch This Bullet Blast Through a Space Shield
The European Space Agency is building a better space shield to protect cubesats from cosmic dust.
Daniel Oberhaus
2.22.18

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Why It's So Hard (and So Important) to Track the Trash We Leave in Space
The space junk challenge.
Brady Dale
5.4.15
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Ecuador's Only Satellite Was Pummeled By Space Debris
The poor bastard didn't even last a month.
Zach Sokol
5.28.13
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To Clean Up Dangerous Orbital Trash, We May Need Space Harpoons and Satellite Claws
In a worst case scenario, tiny runaway pieces of debris could cause a catastrophic domino effect, with each new junk projectile leading to yet more destructive trash that could eventually pulverize everything in orbit.
Zach Sokol and Alex Pasternack
4.24.13