/EINPresswire.com/ -- Post–International Astronautical Congress, Sydney, Australia

The 2025 International Astronautical Congress has wrapped up in Sydney — and while the excitement around innovation in space exploration was inspiring, one urgent truth remains impossible to ignore.

Author of Mars Mission I: Surviving the Kessler Effect, Christopher Lee Jones, reports that no national space agency currently has an active mission planned to remove orbital debris — even though space sustainability has been the IAC’s central topic for two consecutive years.