Keep creating #SpaceJunk, #Elon! Maybe it's time to send up the #SpaceJanitors, eh?

The #KesslerSyndrome: Crisis in Space Intensifies as Thousands of Satellites Crowd Earth Orbit

by Micah Hanks, May 8, 2025

Excerpt: "Welcome to this week’s installment of The Intelligence Brief… as #SpaceX’s Starlink constellation continues to raise the number of operational satellites in orbit, scientists are raising alarms about the growing threat of #SpaceDebris. In our analysis this week, we’ll be looking at 1) the potential onset of the Kessler Syndrome, 2) how a cascading chain reaction of orbital collisions could jeopardize #satellites, #SpaceStations, and critical infrastructure in space, and 3) what space agencies like NASA and the ESA are doing to mitigate risks through debris removal missions and stricter deorbiting guidelines, amid concerns over whether current efforts will be enough to prevent orbital chaos."

https://thedebrief.org/the-kessler-syndrome-crisis-in-space-intensifies-as-thousands-of-satellites-crowd-earth-orbit/

#Satellites #SpacePollution #KesslerEffect #Starlink #DeadSatellites #DarkSkies

America needs a strong NASA

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/america-needs-a-strong-nasa/

Gravitics makes a $125M space station deal with Axiom
Marysville, Wash.-based Gravitics says it has won a $125 million contract from Axiom Space to provide a pressurized spacecraft for Axiom’s yet-to-be-launched commercial space station.

The hardware would play a utility role by providing a varie
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/07/09/gravitics-makes-a-125m-space-station-deal-with-axiom/
#GeekWire #AxiomSpace #CommercialSpaceflight #Gravitics #InternationalSpaceStation #Space #SpaceStations

Exhibit celebrates space station dreams and realities
The dream of having people live and work in space didn’t start with billionaire Jeff Bezos, or even with rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun. Instead, you’d have to look back at least as far as 1869 — a full century before humans walked on the moon.

That’s just one of the fu
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/06/08/exhibit-celebrates-space-station-dreams-and-realities/
#GeekWire #InternationalSpaceStation #MuseumOfFlight #Space #SpaceStations

Gravitics will work with Space Force on space station tech
Marysville, Wash.-based Gravitics says it will work with Rocket Lab USA and other partners to adapt its space station architecture for the U.S. Space Force under the terms of a $1.7 million contract.

The contract was awarded through the 2023 SpaceWERX Tactically Res
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/04/25/gravitics-will-work-with-space-force-on-space-station-tech/
#GeekWire #Gravitics #Military #SBIR #Space #SpaceForce #SpaceStations

The Story of Space Station Mir by David M. Harland (2005)

Text instead of screenshots: https://cohost.org/lurkjay/post/4689953-the-story-of-space-s

#reading #nonfiction #books #history #space #spaceflight #SpaceStations #salyut #almaz #mir #soyuz #SovietUnion #bookstodon

#Starlab will be launched to orbit in a single flight by #Starship.

#NASA spent more than $100 billion 💰 constructing the #ISS and has a $3 billion annual budget for operations and transportation of people and supplies to the station. The agency is likely to fund commercial #SpaceStations at a level of about $1 billion 💵 a year https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/by-launching-on-starship-the-starlab-station-can-get-to-orbit-in-one-piece/