Rachel Feltman:If you’re listening to this podcast, chances are pretty good that you’ve heard about the problem of space junk— the countless pieces of trash from dead satellites, old rockets and other assorted space infrast...
A piece ofspace station trash the size of a refrigerator is poised to plunge through theEarth?s atmosphere late Sunday, more than a year after an astronaut tossed itoverboard. NASA andthe U.S. Space Surveillance Network are tracking the object - a 1,400-pound(635-kg) tankof toxic ammonia...
ForScientific American’sScience Quickly,I’m Rachel Feltman. I’m joined today by Samantha to hear more about her close encounter with parts of an old SpaceX craft—and the perplexing process she went through to try to get someone to deal with the hundreds of pounds of space trash. How ...
Space hardware falling back to Earth can affect the atmosphere as well, so re-entering orbital debris should also be studied, Ross said. "Vaporize" may mean "disappear" in most people's minds, but that's assuredly not the case with re-entering space junk, Ross said. Such debris, he sai...
it could intercept falling satellites, remove them from traffic, repair them, and put them back in orbit. Swiss start-up ClearSpace, meanwhile, has a more specific goal to remove a 100kg Vega Secondary Payload Adapter (Vespa) upper-stage rocket orbiting around 645km (400 miles) above Earth...
The major problem with the space trash is that it may hit working satellites and damage travelling space?craft. Moreover pieces of junk may collide (碰撞) with each other and break into pieces which fall back to the Earth. To avoid this scientists have invented several ways for clearing the...
All trash bags are stowed in the lower deck to be returned to Earth for disposal. Solid waste from the toilet is compacted, dried and stored in bags where it is returned to Earth for disposal (burning). Liquid waste from the toilet goes to the wastewater tank where it is dumped ...
No tyrant of the star-nets or titan of trade ever admired a salvage crew; we’re the crows on their trash-heaps, the rats in their walls. But I don’t think any of them’s ever considered, either, that when their names have long gone airless and their works are rust and shadow, ...
The International Space Station is between 200 and 250 miles above the Earth, where gravity is about 90 percent as strong as on Earth. This is enough to send the ISS crashing into the planet. So why isn’t it falling? The ISS actually is falling. However, it’s not crashing into the...
While orbiting approximately 250 miles above Earth, external cameras aboard the International Space Station captured the sixth test flight of SpaceX’s Starship after liftoff at 4 p.m. CST on Tuesday, Nov. 19. For Artemis III, the first crewed return to the Moon in over 50 years, NASA is...