In 1978, NASA scientist Donald Kessler warned that orbital debris could trigger a runaway cascade of collisions, turning low Earth orbit into an unusable battlefield of shrapnel. Today, with mega ...

Space debris could create a Kessler Syndrome, potentially locking satellites, creating a new form of sovereignty ...

For all the lofty language surrounding norms and responsible behavior, the foundational truth is simple: Space sustainability is a data problem, a coordination problem and a persistence problem. You ...

A powerful solar storm could cripple Earth's satellite infrastructure within days, a new paper warns. Increased satellite ...

Atomic-6, a leading manufacturer of advanced mobility composites, today announced that Portal Space Systems has selected Space Armor® tiles as the primary Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris (MMOD) ...

Portal Space Systems has purchased the fragmentation-resistant, RF-permeable tiles for initial deployment, testing and future ...

A new scientific clock warns Earth’s crowded orbits could trigger satellite collisions within days, as megaconstellations ...

In this side-by-side demonstration against aluminum, Space Armor® tiles successfully stopped a projectile traveling faster ...

The completed deployment would take the total number of Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit to almost 20,000.

Scientists fear the "Kessler Syndrome," a theoretical chain reaction where collisions create more debris, potentially ...

Researchers have proposed a theoretical timepiece, dubbed the "CRASH Clock," which tells us how quickly satellites would ...

Starlink is to lower the orbits of about half its satellite constellation over the course of this year, citing safety ...