The Space Situational Awareness Memorandum of Understanding aims to protect the satellites of the two countries A pact to share information on space activities is signed by the US and India during the 2+2 meeting of their diplomatic and defence leaders in Washington on Monday, according to the State Department. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh …
The year was 1957. Since 1957, countries around the world have launched over 6,000 rockets, which have placed around 10,680 satellites in orbit, according to the European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office. This is something space missions in certain Earth orbits already have to factor in daily, says Stijn Lemmens, a senior space debris mitigation analyst at ESA’s Space Debris …
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