What this is

The Orbital Report is a focused news and events hub for the space debris and orbital sustainability community. Low Earth orbit is filling with defunct satellites, spent rocket stages, and fragments from past collisions — and the effort to track, mitigate, and remove that debris has become one of the defining challenges of the modern space age.

This site pulls that scattered story into one place: the latest coverage from across the industry, and a continuously updated calendar of the conferences, launches, and mission milestones that shape the field.

What you'll find here

• News. Current reporting on debris tracking, active debris removal, on-orbit servicing, space traffic management, regulation, and the satellite operators and agencies driving it.
• A global events calendar. Major conferences and symposia worldwide, launches, and spaceflight milestones such as dockings, spacewalks, and reentries — drawn from trusted feeds and refreshed automatically as dates shift.
• Calendar subscriptions. Sync everything to Google, Apple, or Outlook, or add any single event with one click.
• Community submissions. Know of an event we're missing? Anyone can submit one for review.

Who's behind it

The Orbital Report is curated by Jason P. Crutchfield, author of Space Debris: Clearing the Final Frontier — a book about the growing crisis of orbital debris and the technologies and policies aimed at solving it.

Editorial judgment sits with a human: every conference and community submission is reviewed before it appears, so the calendar stays accurate and free of noise.