China’s space station crew carried out two spacewalks this past winter to repair the solar wings attached to the core module, which had been damaged by space debris. The Tiangong space station’s core module, Tianhe, suffered a partial loss of power due to the impact, leading China to dispatch its astronauts on a pair of […]
China will beef up its space debris procedures for astronauts after a partial loss of power on its Tiangong space station, according to state media. Astronauts on the Shenzhou 17 mission conducted two spacewalks outside the Tiangong space station this winter, most recently on March 1. At the time, Chinese media said there had been […]
Contractors for the N.C. Department of Transportation removed about 45 tons of trash and debris from alongside an exit ramp from Interstate 40 in Raleigh last month. The material was associated with a homeless camp that had grown where the exit ramp from eastbound I-40 meets South Saunders Street. Raleigh police worked for months to […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — Salvage crews at the site of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore are turning their focus to the thousands of tons of debris sitting atop the Dali, a massive cargo ship that veered off course and caused the deadly catastrophe last month. An estimated 3,000 to 4,000 tons of steel […]
Authorities dealing with the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore are continuing to remove debris from the site, as well as containers still on board the ship MV Dali. The Key Bridge Response Unified Command said that by Thursday, April 11, 38 containers had been removed. The aim of the operation is […]
OAK PARK, Mich. (FOX 2) – A massive crash that broke the median on I-696 in Oakland County closed much of the freeway on Thursday. UPDATE: Westbound and eastbound I-696 are open again as of 7:00 p.m., according to MDOT. The impact scattered debris around the roadway, a nearby traffic camera showed. It happened at […]
An accused jewelry store burglar was arrested after he was found covered in debris, California deputies say. When deputies arrived at a Yucaipa jewelry store at about 3:30 a.m. Saturday, March 30, after a burglary alarm went off, they found a utility room door had been pried open, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said […]
Crews are working to remove the first portion of Baltimore bridge wreckage – the starting point in a complicated, extensive cleanup process that could help open up a temporary channel to get more vessels into the water around the collapse site, officials said. Clearing the channel will allow the search for the missing victims to […]
It’s still not clear how long it will take to clear debris from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday, but efforts to remove the remains of the bridge and the cargo ship that sank it — and reopen the vital shipping lanes at the Port of Baltimore — are […]
The environmental impacts of spaceflight are becoming increasingly clear as more and more spacecraft are launched into Earth’s orbit. The growing number of satellites burning up in Earth’s atmosphere has concerned scientists for years, and now a new paper explores how the emerging shell of “conductive dust” around the planet that results from satellite re-entries […]
The Samish Indian Nation announced its Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has passed the one-million pounds of debris in its efforts to clean up the waters and shoreline of Skagit County, Island County, Whatcom County and the San Juan Islands. The tribe said earlier this week 1,095,534 pounds of man-made toxins and objects, including creosote-treated […]
A man was killed after an enormous fire Monday night at a suburban Detroit warehouse, known to stock combustible materials, ignited explosions, shook homes and rained down debris as far as a mile away, officials and residents said. Authorities on Tuesday evening appeared to be focused on butane and nitrous oxide canisters they said were […]