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Falling space debris is a growing problem that will only get worse

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At the beginning of this year, the quiet of a Florida neighborhood was shattered when a piece of waste from The International Space Station crashed into a house. That was followed in May by a 90-kilogram piece of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft crashing into a camping resort in North Carolina, raising the question: Are space … Read more

Ground equipment problem wipes out Firefly’s 5th Alpha launch of 8 CubeSats for NASA – Spaceflight Now

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Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket carrying eight CubeSats as part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch (CSLI) ELaNa (Educational Launch of Nanosatellites) 43 mission departs from the company’s payload processing facility at Space Launch Complex, California, at Vandenberg Space 2 on Sunday, June 30, 2024. Firefly Aerospace is one of three companies selected to fly small satellites into … Read more