Space junk is increasing at a rate of 5% per year. Luckily, researchers at the University of Surrey have invented a “Cubesail” satellite that will reduce future orbital garbage. Once equipment has ...

It's not something laypeople think about very often (space debris, for those wondering), but it's clearly on the minds of boffins at the University of Surrey. Over the years, the amount of defunct ...

We’ve looked at the problem of orbiting space junk before and the threat it poses to the future of space exploration and the use of satellites. Now scientists have devised a miniature “nanosatellite” ...

“CubeSail” is a device which can be fitted to satellites or launch vehicle upper stages that are sent into orbit and then can be deployed to successfully de-orbit equipment that has reached the end of ...

New technology is set to play a major part in clearing dangerous clouds of debris hurtling around the Earth's lower orbit. Scientists have devised a miniature satellite or nanosatellite fitted with a ...

For the first time in 13 years, the Satellite Development Student Organization at the University will be sending a dual-satellite for launching preparation, thanks to a $250,000 funding from NASA. The ...

Engineers at Surrey Space Centre are developing a platform to demonstrate the viability of using drag on a sail to de-orbit small satellites and other space debris. Funded by EADS Astrium, the Surrey ...

UK researchers have developed a device to drag space junk out of orbit. They plan to launch a demonstration of their "CubeSail" next year. It is a small satellite cube that deploys a thin, 25-sq-m ...

Future satellites could deploy solar sails to help take down pieces of space junk floating around Earth and a tiny new spacecraft hopes to make it possible. A British satellite the size of a shoe box ...

NEW YORK — Solar sails, which use the sun’s energy as a means of propulsion, have long been viewed as potential enabler of low-cost, long-duration missions in deep space, but a group of scientists are ...