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Space Junk Could Re-Enter the Atmosphere in Busy Flight Areas

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In the more than 60 years since the Space Age began, humans have sent more than 6,740 rockets to space. According to the ESA’s Space Debris Office, this has resulted in 56,450 objects in orbit; about 36,860 of these objects are regularly tracked and maintained in a catalog, while 10,200 are still functioning. The rest … Read more

JPL completes investigation of Ingenuity’s final flight

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WASHINGTON — NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter crashed early this year when its navigation system was confused by the featureless terrain it was flying over, project engineers concluded. Leaders of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter project at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory briefed the results of what they have dubbed the “first aircraft accident investigation on another world” … Read more