EU's Space Act Would Track Space Objects and Clear Satellite Debris

EU's Space Act would track space objects and clear satellite debris

The European Commission made a proposal Wednesday to clean up Europe's space sector while also reducing its footprint and making sure its satellites are better protected from hackers.

EU Declares War on Space Junk: A Deep Dive into the New Space Act, the Starlink Dilemma and the Hidden Climate Costs of Orbital Debris

The European Commission’s freshly‑minted EU Space Act lands at the very moment low‑Earth orbit (LEO) is sliding from boomtown to bottleneck. Behind the headline pledge to fine careless satellite operators lurks a hard truth: more than 40 000 tracked objects, 7 500+ Starlink spacecraft alone, and upward of 120 million un‑tracked fragments already threaten satellites, science and Earth’s atmosphere. This report unpacks… Read more The post EU Decla…

EU Space Act, expected this week, modifies earlier draft, now makes all satellites subject to the same safety requirements - Space Intel Report

LE BOURGET, France —  The EU Commission has made at least one significant change to its…