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Space debris consists of defunct artificial materials orbiting Earth that usually come from satellites and rockets disintegrating ... ESA's statistical model has estimated that there are 1.1 ...

DEBRIS from a SpaceX Starship rocket that broke apart mid-flight on March 6 has been located and recovered in The Bahamas, with officials conducting environmental assessments to determine whether ...

ROUGHLY 400 pounds of debris ... under the 1972 Space Liability Convention to cover environmental remediation costs. Officials reiterated that the Starship 8 rocket, which exploded minutes ...

SpaceX's eighth flight test of its Starship spacecraft ended with a "rapid unscheduled disassembly," the company said. Contact with the ship was lost about nine minutes after the launch.