U.S. Calls for Outer Space Norms After ‘Irresponsible’ Russia Test December 3, 2021 By Trevor Hunnicutt U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday criticized an “irresponsible” Russian test that endangered the International Space Station with debris,...
Russia Missile Test Creates New Belt of Space Junk, Escalating Threat to Satellites November 19, 2021 By Todd Shields The Russian missile test that shattered a dead satellite this week highlights a growing threat of space debris just as...
Insurers Pull Back as Risks of Satellite and Space Debris Collisions Surge September 1, 2021 By Noor Zainab Hussain and Carolyn Cohn An ever-swelling amount of space debris is threatening satellites that hover around Earth, making insurers leery of offering coverage to...
UK Space Industry Aims to Remove Dangerous Space Junk from Orbit April 16, 2021 By Thomas Pfeiffer and Thomas Seal A defunct satellite spent early April hurtling through space toward the body of an old rocket, threatening a collision that...
Debris Could Threaten Operations in Space – as Well as Earthbound Activities February 22, 2021 Hiscox, the specialist insurer, has called for action to tackle the growing problem of manmade space debris and the threat...
Hackers Find New Battleground in Space, Targeting Satellites in ‘Trophy Attacks’ October 27, 2015 By Ari Rabinovitch Space, the ‘final frontier’, is rapidly becoming an extra-terrestrial battleground for corporate espionage and other types of cyber attack as...