Space Collision FAQ What is space junk? Space junk can be anything like abandoned spacecraft, upper stages of launch vehicles, solid rocket motor effluents or even tiny flecks of paint. How much space junk is there? The European Space Agency estimates as of January 2021 that there are 34,...
We all left the movie theater wondering "I know space junk is a problem, but could it really get that bad?" Today we're going to see where the line lies between fact and hyperbole. There is actually theory that attempts to answer this question. As it's fairly self-evident that debris...
We aim to create a realistic computer model of debris removal situations that can be used to perform an analysis using game theory. This should be able to explain the different ways entities involved in space debris build-up behave. For example, it could predict the amount of effort each ent...
Neither Verified Nor a Theory Walter really shouldn’t think that a random work of fiction “verfiies” any of the speculations or conjectures that he liberally calls “theories”. It correlates with his ideas, and may even support them, but it certainly doesn’t verify anything. Walter Is A...
There are more than 23,000 objects orbiting the earth that count as “space junk”. Thankfully, space is huge and these objets are all really far apart… for now. GIF There’s an Earth-like planet called 55 Cancri e, which is made of diamonds. ...
The second’s fury that reduced the third stage of a $5,000,000 rocket to junk was evident to him only as a brilliant blue-white flash, a hammer-like shock through the antennae support that left his wrist and forearm numb. Then a violent wrench as a long cylinder, expelled from the ...
Real Estate Some Space Junk Fell Through Your Roof. Who'll Pay to Fix That? Advertisement Could Our Spacecraft Accidentally Ignite an Alien World's Entire Atmosphere? By: Patrick J. Kiger | Updated: Apr 16, 2024 Other worlds have significant amounts of gas like hydrogen or methane in the...
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There is much debris or “space junk” in the near-Earth space environment that is large enough to threaten human spaceflights and robotic missions but too small to be tracked. The International Space Station (ISS) and other spacecraft with humans on board, due to the exponential growth of ...
SEE ALSO: Elon Musk's 'Starman' Tesla Roadster isn't your typical piece of space junk If the chain reaction were to occur, vast regions of valuable orbital space would become unusable collections of mangled debris. Forty years after he first came up with his theory, Kessler says that the...