Image Source – https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/S4-space-junk-045.jpg Human beings have been polluting the planet for many decades, but now they have started polluting the outer space as well. Recently, we saw many news channels and newspapers talking about the issue of space junk and how it can be a threat to the astronauts and spacecraft. Space junk refers […]
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Scrap Rain: 100 Tons of Space Debris Fall on Earth Each Year
More than 7,000 tons of satellite scrap fly around the Earth. The first objective is to detect all the fragments. The last is to get rid of them. The sky began to spit metal balls. The first impacted Pozorrubio de Santiago in the province of Cuenca. Another similar object precipitated that same day on Elda […]
‘Space Junk’ Could Damage Future Wave of Spacecraft
At any given time, there are over half a million pieces of marble-sized debris floating in orbit around Earth. There are also upwards of 20,000 larger pieces of debris, ranging from an astronaut’s glove to a disused rocket stage. Bits of debris left behind from human-led expeditions or crafts launched into space are often called […]
Astro-H started to generate debris !
Remaining silent Japanese X-ray observation satellite Astro-H generates debris; chances for the resumption of communication are low. According to Joint Space Operations Center tweet, problems with Astro-H are not only connected with communication problems. In spite of fact, that Astro-H is not responding to ground control station, satellite started to generate debris. For the first time it was spotted […]
Over three hundred new pieces of space debris on the Earth’s orbit !
Telling that space debris problem is growing annually will not be adequate – pace of increasing number of pieces of space debris is really impressive. From last week number of space trashes rapidly increased for 351 ! The Joint Space Operations Center, American institution which is monitoring number of space debris pieces remaining on the Earth’s […]