Not much is known about the Kappa Cygnid meteor shower, and NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office (MEO) is working to rectify that.

NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office recently released two Technical Manuals (TMs): NASA Meteoroid Engineering Model Release 2.0 (TM-2015-218214) and Lunar Impact Flash Locations (TM-2015-218213).

The October 2015 issue of Orbital Debris Quarterly News is now available and features the article "Two More Collision Avoidance Maneuvers for the International Space Station." Continue reading for the full article.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, with the support of NASA’s Meteoroids Environments Office, conducted a dust study as a part of NASA’s Solar Probe Plus mission to explore the sun’s outer atmosphere. 

See the July issue of Orbital Debris Quarterly News. 

The April 2015 issue of Orbital Debris Quarterly News features the article "Orion EFT-1 Postflight MMOD Inspection." Continue reading for the full article.

See the latest issue of Orbital Debris Quarterly News. 

The October 2014 issue of Orbital Debris Quarterly News includes an article featuring the comet Siding Spring and the science opportunities it presents. Continue reading for the full article.

The July 2014 issue of Orbital Debris Quarterly News included an article on Dr. Jer Chyi (J.-C.) Liou, NASA’s new chief scientist for orbital debris. Continue reading for the full article.

Want to learn more about orbital debris? A new SATERN course, “Orbital Debris,” is available.