The US government has issued its first fine to a company for leaving junk in space. US TV company Dish Network has been told to pay $150,000 (around £125,000) for failing to remove a satellite ...

In a historic move, the US government's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has imposed its inaugural fine ... space debris problem. With over 10,000 satellites launched into space since the ...

Since the Soviets launched the first satellite in 1957 ... About 25,000 are pieces of obsolete satellites, rocket parts and debris — space junk orbiting out of control and posing a threat ...

Space debris re-enters Earth every day. Most burn up in the atmosphere. But Russia's 1972 failed Venera mission probe Cosmos ...

US authorities have issued a "breakthrough" first-ever fine over space debris, officials said Monday, slapping a $150,000 penalty on a TV company that failed to properly dispose of a satellite ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report that more than 6,600 tons of space junk are currently floating about in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), between 100 - 1,200 ...

and ever since we started launching things into orbit, that danger has often been of our own doing. As Dr. Nilton Renno at the University of Michigan explains it, a lot of space junk is moving at ...

A European Space Agency report released April 1 studied the space above Earth. The report says that if space debris buildup is ... For the first time, controlled reentries of rocket bodies ...