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Keeping space tidy should become a global UN goal, say researchers
The United Nations has 17 sustainable development goals that all member states have signed up to in an effort to balance ...
A Sustainable Development Goal for space?
Scientists have called for the designation of a new United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) with the aim to ...
A Half-Ton Piece of Space Junk Falls Onto a Village in Kenya
No one was hurt by the object, believed to be part of a launch rocket. Experts say the frequency of such incidents is ...
What Is Space Junk, and What Can Be Done About It?
This is how debris finds itself languishing in space—and what some organizations are doing to mitigate the problem.
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Massive piece of space junk crashes into village in Kenya — and officials still have no idea where it came from
A 1,100-pound metal ring from a rocket smashed in to a Kenyan village, where it startled residents and flattened trees ...
Burning space junk weighing 500kg crash lands in Kenyan village
A red-hot piece of space debris that weighs half a tonne plummeted to Earth this week, landing in a remote Kenyan village.
What is the Kessler Syndrome? How space junk has become an orbital threat
All of this adds up to the likelihood, the ESA warns, that a theoretical scenario known as the Kessler Syndrome could become ...
Massive ‘space object’ fragment crashes into remote village in Kenya
A huge, red-hot object fell from the sky into a Kenyan village on Monday afternoon according to local residents cited by the ...
A Mysterious Half-Ton Piece Of Space Junk Crashed Into A Village In Kenya
A half-ton piece of space junk crashed into a Kenyan village this week. Initial reports from the Kenya Space Agency were ...
Space debris weighing over 1,000 pounds reportedly crashes into village in Kenya
Officials said they were investigating fragments of metal, believed to be from a rocket, that crashed into a village in the ...
As the amount of junk in space magnifies, space agencies warn future missions could be in danger
The amount of space junk has magnified over the years, leading to more collisions and threats to future space missions.
Mysterious half tonne metal ring crash lands on Earth as experts sound the alarm over growing ‘space junk’
A LARGE glowing ring of metal plummeted on a village in Kenya on Monday, in a shocking reminder of Earth’s looming space ...