Two private companies are partnering up to establish a repeatable debris removal service for low Earth orbit, and they want ...

Portal Space Systems and Paladin Space are partnering to launch a commercial space debris removal service by 2027, targeting millions of small, high-risk fragments in low Earth orbit. Using Portal’s ...

Hoboken, N.J., December 4, 2025 — High up in the earth’s orbit, millions of human-made objects large and small are flying at speeds of over 15,000 miles per hour. The objects, which range from ...

Portal Space Systems and Paladin Space have partnered to create an operational, cost-effective space debris removal service by 2027. Using Portal’s Starburst spacecraft and Paladin’s Triton payload, ...

If there are one or two more collisions in the most popular orbits, space debris could bring us very unhappy times,” said ...

In January, a Chinese spacecraft meant to carry three astronauts back to Earth from the Tiangong space station returned unmanned, but with a cracked window. The culprit? A piece of debris the size of ...

Scientists studied how space junk moved in orbit over a 36-year span, finding that increased solar activity caused it to fall ...

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Space is filled with garbage. More specifically, the low Earth orbit, where most satellites and space equipment spend their time. NASA estimates that there are nearly 6,000 tons of material in low ...

Space debris, also known as space junk, consists of defunct man-made objects that orbit Earth, including satellites, spent rocket stages and other various fragments from collisions. According to the ...