The reported debris strike impact on Shenzhou-20 is a reminder: even tiny fragments in space can be catastrophic. A 10cm object at orbital speed has the energy of several kg of TNT — like a 550lb object hitting you at highway speed on Earth. NASA calls orbital debris the single

🚨Three Chinese astronauts couldn’t return to Earth after space junk hit their spacecraft. Scientists warn this could be just the first of more accidents caused by orbital debris. There's concern. “There are a lot of people up there,” one source told me. scientificamerican.com/article/chinas…

CSET's Lauren Kahn shares insights with Scientific American on the growing risks from orbital debris.

The #Shenzhou-20 Crew is still stuck in space after debris struck their return craft. I suspect incidents like this will only persist as #LEO proliferates. Lauren Kahn and I have just created a data interactive exploring trackable #space #debris, who owns it, and how it

BOOSTER TOUCHDOWN! New Glenn returns to its blue origin.

On just its second launch of a New Glenn rocket, Blue Origin successfully landed its first stage booster, named 'Never Tell Me the Odds', becoming the second company to land an orbital class rocket. Watch live: youtube.com/watch?v=iheyXg…

JSLC will move on to launching the SZ-22 ship soon to be reassigned to the SZ-21 crew.

Excited to share my and Lauren Kahn new piece in The National Interest on anti-satellite weapons and space debris. This is particularly timely given the delay of the #Shenzhou20 crew return as a result of a suspected orbital debris strike. nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/…

In 2022, China obliquely lampooned the US for its contributions to space debris, telling the UN that “a certain superpower" has conducted more Anti-Satellite (ASAT) weapons tests than any other country and "created more space debris than any other nation.” That claim wasn’t true

One of my favorite charts that Lauren Kahn created with Space-Track data. We identified ASAT tests and looked to see what their legacy debris was. Fengyun-1C created an enduring issue for orbital regimes, yet China claims the U.S. is most responsible for careless ASAT

Highly recommend checking out this new piece on ASATs and space debris (complete w/ cool data!) from Kathleen & Lauren Kahn from CSET!

What to know about space debris time-magazine.visitlink.me/2BmEK6

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Was such fun to join Amy Juravich for their All Sides WOSU Public Media Tech Tuesday segment discussing all things space debris, and in my home state of Ohio, no less!

The U.S. AI Action Plan promised more than tech leadership—it promised an AI-ready workforce. Two executive orders set deadlines for action on AI education and apprenticeships. Those deadlines have passed. In a new CSET blog, Ali Crawford outlines what progress has been made and