Tagged: space debris

Debris Remediation

Sweeping Away Space Debris With Dust

By Stavros Georgakas on July 1, 2012

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are looking into an innovative... Read more →

Spacecraft Design

NASA and ESA to Test Laser Communication

By Pedro Vaz Teixeira on June 26, 2012

A green laser aims for the moon in an optical test (Credits: ESA). NASA and ESA are... Read more →

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Open Source Cubesat Next Phase in DIY Space Access

By Merryl Azriel on June 18, 2012

NanoSatisfi's Peter Platzer holds a prototype ArduSat board, including the master... Read more →

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Goodbye Envisat, or legal issues associated with the threat of a massive space debris

By Rosa Rosanelli on June 14, 2012

This scale model of Envisat shows the relative size of the craft that now poses a... Read more →

Space in Everyday Life

ESTEC-based editor oversees magazine aiming to make space safer

By Staff Writers on June 5, 2012

Space Safety Magazine Issue 3 Source: ESA By day Andrea Gini is part of ESTEC’s... Read more →

Active debris removal satellites like the proposed CleanSpace One will be limited in their targets by debris ownership issues (Credits: EPFL).

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CleanSpace One and Space Debris

By Staff Writers on May 17, 2012

In February 2012, the Swiss Space Center at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne... Read more →