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'Urgent need' to remove space debris
Topic Started: Apr 26 2013, 10:27 PM (96 Views)
CJ
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A very minor case of serious brain damage

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22299403

There is now so much debris in orbit that the space environment is close to a cascade of collisions that would make space extremely hazardous, a major international meeting has concluded.

Its summary position stated there was an "urgent need" to start pulling redundant objects out of the sky.

Scientists estimate there are nearly 30,000 items circling the Earth larger than 10cm in size.

Some are whole satellites and rocket bodies, but many are just fragments.

These have resulted from explosions in fuel tanks and batteries, and from the high-velocity impacts between objects.



Hardly surprising, really. We've been very bad when it comes to leaving junk behind in space.
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