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- In New York City, trash has no dedicated space all its own https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/02/upshot/nyc-trash-rules.html 5 comments
- Trash from the International Space Station may have hit a house in Florida https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/trash-from-the-international-space-station-may-have-hit-a-house-in-florida/ 13 comments
- Metal thought to be International Space Station trash rips through Florida home https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/02/space-trash-florida-home 5 comments
- Trash from the International Space Station may have hit a house in Florida https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/trash-from-the-international-space-station-may-have-hit-a-house-in-florida/ 80 comments nottheonion
- Trash from the International Space Station may have hit a house in Florida https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/trash-from-the-international-space-station-may-have-hit-a-house-in-florida/ 245 comments space
- Made an Animated Video on Space Trash Problem https://youtu.be/PymixYCylXY 5 comments space
- More than 100 Moon missions are planned in coming years, which means space junk near the Moon could become a major problem. That's why two astronomers are currently building a catalog to track lunar trash. https://astronomy.com/news/2023/02/space-junk-around-moon 15 comments space
- The recycling industry profits from recyclable materials, yet literally cannot hire enough people to deal with the 300 million tons of trash the US disposes of annually. If this isn't an industry that is ripe for robotics, what is? Why aren't more competitors in this space? https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxEGTsxVmOCkWoswhfY_7z0zR_aQswUn96 8 comments robotics
- Newsom kicks off California’s $1.1 billion plan to clean trash and graffiti from public spaces statewide https://ktla.com/news/california/newsom-kicks-off-californias-1-1-billion-plan-to-clean-trash-and-graffiti-from-public-spaces-statewide/ 27 comments politics
- Europe signs €86 million deal to bring space trash home https://www.euronews.com/2020/11/26/europe-signs-86-million-deal-to-bring-space-trash-home 18 comments europe
- Earth May Soon Get Another Mini-Moon, but It's Probably Just a Piece of Space Trash https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earth-may-soon-get-another-mini-moon-180975934/#.x3o98r4geci.reddit 4 comments space
- Europe Is Launching a Suicide Robot to 'Hug' Space Trash Out of Orbit https://www.livescience.com/esa-space-junk-removal-kamikaze-robot.html 314 comments space
- Space Derelicts & Trash Worlds | Isaac Arthur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMrWF4nOyC8 3 comments space
- India’s missile test sent dangerous space trash hurling near ISS: NASA chief https://news.yahoo.com/nasa-chief-india-missile-test-134509915.html 11 comments space
- Astronomers discover a piece of space debris erratically moving in orbit, dub it the “trash bag”. https://www.popsci.com/space-junk-trash-bag-a10bmlz 6 comments space
- Russian space leader issues decree against trash, “sloppy” work attitudes. Among the problems observed, according to the newspaper, are holes in walls and wooden roofs, with buckets on tables and floors to capture water leaks. https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/russian-space-leader-issues-decree-against-trash-sloppy-work-attitudes/ 88 comments space
- Navy veteran discovers rare NASA, spy drone photos in trash Treasure donated to American Space Museum http://www.click2houston.com/news/navy-veteran-discovers-rare-nasa-spy-drone-photos-in-trash 4 comments space
- Space's Trash Collector? A Japanese Entrepreneur Wants the Job. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/science/space-junk-astroscale.html? 3 comments space
- Astronauts unload 1.5 tons of trash into space | Capsule will burn up over Pacific Ocean http://www.clickorlando.com/news/space-news/space-station-astronauts-give-huge-trash-can-the-boot 4 comments space
- Man in China kicks stray dog for being in his parking space. The dog comes back with friends to get revenge by trashing driver's car. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2989583/that-s-barking-space-stray-dog-kicked-driver-parking-bay-returns-pack-friends-trashes-car.html#ixzz3u8ltyeax 8 comments worldnews
- Boston Police Throw American Flag To Ground, Arrest Veterans, Trash Property To Protect ‘Green Space’ From 99% http://www.nationofchange.org/boston-police-throw-american-flag-ground-arrest-veterans-trash-property-protect-green-space-99-131 10 comments politics
- Boston Police Throw American Flag To Ground, Arrest Veterans, Trash Property To Protect ‘Green Space’ From 99% http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/11/340186/boston-police-throw-american-flag-to-ground-arrest-veterans-trash-property-to-protect-green-space-from-99-percent/ 118 comments politics
- NASA's Space Trash Hit a Florida Home. The Family is suing. - The claim against NASA will set a precedent for how future space debris accidents are dealt with. https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/nasas-space-trash-hit-the-home-of-a-florida-family-they-are-suing 80 comments futurology
- Ocean trash can now be tracked from space. Researchers believe the new system could help cleanup projects identify areas of concentrated ocean plastic pollution and even forecast where and when it might disperse. https://www.popsci.com/science/ocean-plastic-satellites/ 5 comments science
- Low Earth orbit is reaching capacity due to flying space trash and SpaceX and Amazon’s plans to launch thousands of satellites. Physicists are looking to expand into the, more dangerous, medium Earth orbit. https://academictimes.com/earths-orbit-is-running-out-of-real-estate-but-physicists-are-looking-to-expand-the-market/ 1839 comments science
- Space Junk Removal Is Not Going Smoothly - Despite promising technology demonstrations, there is no one-size-fits-all solution for the growing problem of taking out the orbital trash https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-junk-removal-is-not-going-smoothly/ 7 comments technology
- Space Junk Removal Is Not Going Smoothly - Despite Promising Technology Demonstrations, There Is No One-Size-Fits-All Solution For The Growing Problem Of Taking Out The Orbital Trash https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-junk-removal-is-not-going-smoothly/ 15 comments space
- ESA delegates to tackle 'space junk' problem in effort to clean up cosmic trash surrounding Earth: Experts from around the world are set to meet in Germany to discuss the increasingly serious problem http://www.mirror.co.uk/science/esa-delegates-tackle-space-junk-10201078#icid=nsm 44 comments space
- Space trash in Spain: Mysterious space object found by shepherds in Murcia field http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/11/05/inenglish/1446724352_762016.html 10 comments space
- Inside Russia's 'Kremlin troll army': "What Russians are trying to go for is kind of a reverse censorship," he told Ukrainian internet-based Hromadske TV ("Public TV"). They cannot censor the information space, but can "trash it with conspiracy theories and rumours" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31962644 59 comments worldnews
- Low Earth orbit is running out of space due to flying space trash and SpaceX and Amazon’s plans to launch thousands of satellites. Physicists are looking to expand into the, more dangerous, medium Earth orbit. https://academictimes.com/earths-orbit-is-running-out-of-real-estate-but-physicists-are-looking-to-expand-the-market/ 5 comments space
- The Plan to Turn Scrapped Rockets Into Space Stations - Spent rockets are dangerous space trash, but they could be the future of living and working in orbit. https://www.wired.com/story/the-plan-to-turn-scrapped-rockets-into-space-stations/ 262 comments space
- Due to a loophole, the case of a Florida home hit with space debris will set a precedent for future space trash cases. If the house was in Mexico, the U.S. would have to compensate. But this convention “does not apply where national citizens of a launching state suffer damages caused by that state.” https://www.supercluster.com/editorial/nasas-space-trash-hit-the-home-of-a-florida-family-they-are-suing 84 comments space
- Recycling space junk could carry us to Mars. New project aims to recycle and refine space trash into rocket fuel. Neumann Space has announced that their metal-burning thruster would undergo its first proof-of-concept test next year. https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/exploration/recycling-space-junk-could-carry-us-to-mars/ 8 comments space
- Can the World’s First Space Sweeper Make a Dent in Orbiting Debris? - A private company has just completed the first successful test of its trash collector https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/can-worlds-first-space-sweeper-make-dent-orbiting-debris-180978515/ 16 comments technology
- Can the World’s First Space Sweeper Make a Dent in Orbiting Debris? - A private company has just completed the first successful test of its trash collector https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/can-worlds-first-space-sweeper-make-dent-orbiting-debris-180978515/ 22 comments space
- Here he shows the satellites orbiting our planet. Russia, as you might expect, has a whole lot of satellites that are no longer functioning. China is responsible for a surprisingly large amount of tiny space trash, though I'm not exactly clear on what that is... [pic] http://kakukkmark.blogspot.com/2010/02/earths-satellites-visualized-by-nation.html 13 comments science
- As humans explore space, we leave traces of our adventures across the solar system: rovers, landers, orbiters, and Skycranes. Are spacecraft like these "space archaeology" or "space junk"? Are we trashing space? https://www.planetary.org/articles/space-trash 27 comments space
- Tentacle-like robot to take out trash in space - Researchers from Tianjin University have developed such a robotic arm that can be used to chase down and collect debris from satellites and other space technology orbiting high above Earth https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/2102044342/ 12 comments space