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Managing the Orbital Economy as Low Earth Orbit Becomes More Congested

Low Earth orbit is rapidly shifting from a frontier to an operating marketplace: rising constellation deployments, commercial stations and on-orbit services are increasing traffic and collision risk. Managing an orbital economy will require integrated traffic-management, shared surveillance data, robust debris mitigation and clear commercial-regulatory rules to sustain operations.

2026-01-15T08:10:57.456203-08:00
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NASA says recovery of MAVEN Mars orbiter 'very unlikely' after month-long loss of contact

By SpaceNews.com: NASA says it is “very unlikely” the agency will be able to recover a Mars spacecraft that has been out of contact for more than a month.

2026-01-14T04:46:58.619718-08:00