Japan’s Astroscale to launch satellite for space debris removal in March
The satellite will be carried into space by a Russian Soyuz rocket lifting off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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The satellite will be carried into space by a Russian Soyuz rocket lifting off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Due to the proximity to Earth, huge constellations are required to maintain coverage in LEO, so congestion is predictably going to get much worse, says Pascal Wauthier.
The rockets empty core stage, weighing nearly 18 tons, is the largest piece of space debris to fall uncontrolled back to Earth since 1991.
Over the next 24 months, LeoLabs Collision Avoidance will expand collision alerts to include previously uncatalogued small debris.
Roscosmos noted that the launch vehicle fragmented in a region of Earths orbit thats over the Indian Ocean.
