There are more than 30,000 hunks of junk floating ... pieces like rocket bodies are large enough to survive re-entry through Earth’s atmosphere. Debris from an exploding Space X ship diverted ...

In their study, the researchers used data on rocket junk re-entries and flights on the busiest day in 2023 to calculate the risk to airspaces with various air traffic densities. Regions with 10 ...

The rocket's upper stage — known as Starship, or simply "Ship" — was supposed to deploy 10 dummy satellites into a suborbital trajectory and then splash down in the Indian Ocean about an hour ...