AMERICANTHINKER - Space Junk And The Coming Crisis In Low Earth Orbit
ChatGPT for American Thinker By Janet Levy There is only so much capacity in space for objects; a cleanup is critical and overdue.
NEWSNATIONNOW - Chilean telescope verifies SpaceX rocket hit moon
The SpaceX Falcon 9 has been in space for 18 months and ended up on a collision path with the near side of the moon.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - SpaceX rocket to hit moon at 5,400 mph after drifting for year
Scientists expect valuable data to emerge when part of a discarded SpaceX rocket slams into the moon later this week. The space junk comes from the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket that launched a pair of lunar landers back in 2025 before the spacecraft was abandoned. The rocket component, weighing thousands of pounds, will be traveling at 5,400 miles per hour at the time of impact. Start your day with "Morning in America," NewsNation's live three-hour national weekend morning newscast hosted by Anna Kooiman. Saturday and Sunday starting at 6a/5C. #MorningInAmerica NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
NYTIMES (Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Margaret Kadifa, Jake Lucas, Ian Stewart and Selam Gebrekidan) - A Cyberattack on U.S. Water Systems, and the Growing Threat of Falling Space Junk
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NYTIMES (Selam Gebrekidan) - A Ton of Space Junk Tumbles Unpredictably to Earth Every Week
Flaming chunks of metal crash into homes, farms and parking lots. Who’s to blame? And who pays for the damage?
NYTIMES (Selam Gebrekidan) - A Ton of Space Junk Tumbles Unpredictably to Earth Every Week
Flaming chunks of metal crash into homes, farms and parking lots. Who’s to blame? And who pays for the damage?
HUFFPOST - SpaceX Launches Robot To Give Fuel Jetpacks To Out-of-gas Satellites
A two-armed space robot is on its way to give life-extending jetpacks to out-of-gas satellites thousands of miles up.
NYTIMES (Michael Levenson) - ‘Don’t Worry About It’: NASA Satellite to Burn Up in Fall to Earth
Most of the Van Allen Probe A, in orbit since 2012, will incinerate in Earth’s atmosphere, NASA said. But some pieces are expected to survive, posing a small risk to people on the ground.
NYTIMES (Sachi Kitajima Mulkey) - Sorry, SpaceX: It’s Getting Too Crowded Up There
Elon Musk wants to launch a million satellites, but researchers say global warming is changing the upper atmosphere in ways that makes space junk linger.