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News Articles: space junk

NASA says this stanchion, at right, had been expected to burn up during reentry, but instead it struck a man's house in Florida. The object is seen here next to another stanchion in pristine shape, at left.

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A hunk of space junk crashed through his roof in Florida. Who should pay to fix it?

"It was not like anything I had ever seen before," Alejandro Otero says. It turned out his home was hit by debris from the International Space Station that had been circling the Earth for three years.

April 24, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
This composite image created with data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the far side of the moon. A mysterious piece of space junk is set to crash into the far side Friday morning.

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In a first, a mysterious rocket part is about to slam into the moon — by accident

A rocket part set to slam into the far side of the moon Friday morning highlights the growing issue of space junk in orbit around Earth, experts say

March 03, 2022
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  • Brendan Byrne
The piece of space junk is expected to hit the moon in early March.

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Space junk piece set to hit the moon is likely from a Chinese rocket, not SpaceX

Astronomers noticed it was unlikely the piece of space junk was from the Falcon 9 launch in 2015, due to the gap between the rocket's trajectory and object.

February 15, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram
A Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket lifted off in Florida in Feb. 2015, on its way to send the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite into space. But seven years later, part of the rocket left behind in space is hurtling straight toward the moon.

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A piece of space junk the size of a school bus is barreling straight toward the moon

Astronomers predict that on March 4th, a piece of a rocket launched in 2015 will crash into the moon. It's believed to be first time something man-made has accidentally crashed into the moon.

February 02, 2022
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  • Deepa Shivaram
"We're tracking it. We're following it as closely as we can. It's just a little too soon right now to know where it's going to go or what if anything can be done about that," a U.S. Space Command spokesman told reporters.

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What Goes Up Must Come Down — Including A Giant Chinese Rocket Plunging Toward Earth

U.S. Space Command says the exact entry point into Earth's atmosphere cannot be pinpointed until hours before its reentry, which is expected sometime around Saturday.

May 07, 2021
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  • Vanessa Romo
A rendering showing ELSA-d's concept of operations. The mission aims to demonstrate technology that could help clear space debris.

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New Effort To Clean Up Space Junk Reaches Orbit

Known as ELSA-d, the mission will exhibit technology that could help capture space junk, some of the millions of pieces of orbital debris that float above Earth.

March 22, 2021
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  • Chloee Weiner

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