Keith’s note: Last night I spoke with Al Jazeera English about a recent piece of space debris that landed in Kenya and the broader issue of space debris. [audio]
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Space Situational Awareness Hearing
Space & Aeronautics Subcommittee Hearing – Space Situational Awareness: Guiding the Transition to a Civil Capability (with witness statements) – Chairwoman Johnson Opening Statement “As the amount of space debris […]
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NASAWatch On BBC World News TV – Russian ASAT Test
Keith Cowing · NASAWatch on BBC World News: Russian Anti-satellite test
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Senate Bill On Space Debris/Situational Awareness Introduced
Wicker Introduces Space Preservation and Conjunction Emergency Act “U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today introduced the Space Preservation and Conjunction […]
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Dialogue to Continue with China on Space Debris
U.S., China will meet this year to talk space debris, SpaceNews “In a keynote speech here Sept. 22 at the AMOS conference, Frank Rose, the assistant secretary of State for […]
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Space Debris Is A Hot Topic In D.C. This Week
Air Force to award ‘Space Fence’ contract to track orbital debris, Washington Post “Hundreds of thousands of pieces of man-made debris are floating around out there, the detritus of more […]
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Tracking Space Junk
Lockheed Martin Space Fence Radar Prototype Tracking Orbiting Objects “A prototype of a new radar system developed by a Lockheed Martin-led team is now tracking orbiting space objects, bringing the […]
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NASA Gives all Clear for Space Station
Space Debris No Threat to Station, NASA “Tracking data now indicates that a piece of orbital debris being monitored by Mission Control Houston will not pass close enough to the […]