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Bookmark or Share- Orbital Debris - NASAOrbital Debris (OD) is any human-made object in orbit that no longer serves a useful purpose, including spacecraft fragments and retired satellites. NASA’s OD Program Office measures the environment and leads mitigation efforts to protect users of the orbital environment.
- Space Debris: Understanding the Risks to NASA SpacecraftMicrometeoroids and orbital debris (MMOD) is the number one risk for NASA’s human spaceflight programs. Many orbital debris objects—approximately 20,000—are large enough to be tracked and catalogued by the U.S. Space Surveillance Network and can be avoided by spacecraft maneuvering.
- Space Debris - NASAMost orbital debris comprises human-generated objects, such as pieces of space craft, tiny flecks of paint from a spacecraft, parts of rockets, satellites that are no longer working, or explosions of objects in orbit flying around in space at high speeds.
- NASA Study Provides New Look at Orbital Debris, Potential SolutionsThe new report has improved the quality of the estimates of the risks posed to spacecraft by orbital debris. These new estimates cover everything from the largest debris in space down to millimeter-size fragments. The report also expands the OTPS teams’ focus to include actions that can mitigate the creation of new debris and track existing ...
- Space debris - WikipediaSpace debris (also known as space junk, space pollution, [1] space waste, space trash, space garbage, or cosmic debris[2]) are defunct human-made objects in space – principally in Earth orbit – which no longer serve a useful function.
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