Space traffic management - Unmanned airspace

UK aims to launch space junk relocation mission in 2029

November 2, 2026 Kylie Bielby Space traffic management

The UK is to use giant robotic claws to grab dead satellites in an effort to clean up space debris. The UK’s Active Debris Removal

UN, experts call for new focus on clearing space debris with collision “no longer hypothetical”

November 2, 2026 Kylie Bielby Space traffic management

Space debris collision is no longer a distant hypothetical, an expert warned during a joint meeting of the United Nations (UN) First Committee – Disarmament

Raytheon to supply US Space Force with early warning, characterisation and tracking capabilities

October 16, 2026 Kylie Bielby Space traffic management

Raytheon has been selected to modernise US Space Force radar sites with sensors designed to provide early warning of launches, characterisation of objects and activity

Look Up plans six space surveillance radars across French overseas territories

September 30, 2026 Paloma Coelho Space traffic management

French space surveillance company Look Up plans to deploy six additional SORASYS radars across France’s overseas territories as part of a more than EUR100 million

ESA’s space environment report warns of “skyrocketing, runaway” objects in low Earth orbit

September 29, 2026 Kylie Bielby Space traffic management

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Space Debris Office has published its annual Space Environment Report to provide a global overview and determine how well international

Active satellite population “rises 29% in last year to nearly 17,000” – new report

September 9, 2026 Paloma Coelho Space traffic management

The number of active satellites orbiting Earth has risen by 29% in the past year to 16,819, according to the fourth edition of the Look

SpaceX plans USD100 billion Louisiana spaceport for high-volume Starship launches

August 26, 2026 Paloma Coelho Space traffic management

SpaceX plans to invest at least USD100 billion in a new spaceport on the Louisiana Gulf Coast designed to support thousands of Starship flights a

New US space transportation policy links to ATC modernisation programme

August 25, 2026 Kylie Bielby Space traffic management

A new White House space transportation policy aims to support more than 1000 launches and reentries annually by 2030. To achieve this, the departments of

UTM rises into space – and ANSPs will have a role

August 11, 2026 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Commentary, Space traffic management

By Philip Butterworth-Hayes In March this year UAS traffic management (UTM) company Skypuzzler announced that it had been granted a European Space Agency (ESA) SPARK

Astrolight, ATMOS plan satellite and re-entry vehicle communications by laser

August 11, 2026 Philip Butterworth-Hayes Space traffic management

On August 10, 2026 Astrolight, a Lithuanian space and defence company developing laser communication solutions across space, ground, and maritime domains, and ATMOS Space Cargo,