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This article lists verifiable spaceflight-related accidents and incidents resulting in human death or serious injury. These include incidents during flight or training for crewed space missions and testing, assembly, preparation, or flight of crewed and robotic spacecraft.
12 paź 2020 · On average over the last two decades, 12 accidental ‘fragmentations’ have occured in space every year – and this trend is unfortunately increasing. Fragmentation events describe moments in which debris is created due to collisions, explosions, electrical problems and even just the detachment of objects due to the harsh conditions in space.
18 lis 2023 · But SpaceX seems to have lost the signal from the spacecraft and is waiting to find out whether it continues to travel or if that’s the end of today’s journey.
5 cze 2024 · The Florida crash landing of space debris jettisoned from the ISS has spun up concerns about uncontrolled reentry of human-made space debris.
9 lut 2022 · SpaceX has lost dozens of satellites after they were hit by a geomagnetic storm a day after launch, causing them to fall from orbit and burn up. Such solar "storms" are caused by powerful...
2 kwi 2024 · Japan comes face to face with its own space junk. A Tokyo company's satellite encounters a big lump of space debris high above the Earth. Science & Environment. 16 Apr 2024.
29 gru 2023 · China has also been criticized many times for allowing the massive Long March 5 rocket to fall back to Earth naturally, causing space debris, following launches of the heavy-launch system.
