Earth's Space Debris Problem Is Getting Worse, And There's an Explosive Component

www.sciencealert.com ^ | MICHELLE STARR, 13 OCTOBER 2020

[LIConFem]

Makes one wonder if Earth orbit isn’t controlled by Gavin Newsom.

[alancarp]

Launch a gigantic Roomba. I suggest the Raiders' new Vegas stadium.

[Truthoverpower]

Number one space is very very big

Number two it cost about $1 million to send 1 pound of any material into space

Gus I’m calling this story bull crap just like the never ending stories of debris in the ocean and giant piles of trash ruining the ocean

[Red Badger]

LOL!................

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I'm waiting for a big chunk of this stuff to hit a schoolroom full of children. Then there will be a big stink.
 

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I'm waiting for a big chunk of this stuff to hit a schoolroom full of children. Then there will be a big stink.
 

[certrtwngnut]

“Then there will be a big stink”.
The big stink is with this article.

[BiteYourSelf]

Calling captain Quark.👩‍🚀😁

[Robert DeLong]

I hear it does indeed suck but, like the Raiders, it has no propensity for propulsion. 8>)

[Calvin Locke]

http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-debris/falling-satellite/has-anyone-been-hit-by-space-debris/

Nutshell: One person in Tulsa, OK was struck on the shoulder by a piece of a Delta II rocket fuel tank. (Maybe on 09-24-2011.)

[SunkenCiv]

• Fake asteroid? NASA expert IDs mystery object as old rocket

[freedumb2003]

We need:

[pepsi_junkie]

Number one space is very very big

Except it's not all of space, it's the area in a specific band around our planet that accommodates stable orbits. Every satellite is zoooming around the world in this slice of space in close proximity to each other given the speed they travel (they do a complete revolution around the planet in 90 minutes so they cover a LOT of distance in a short amount of time)

[discostu]

Space is very big, but near earth orbit isn’t. Yes it costs a lot to put stuff in space, but parts fall off.

It’s not bull crap. This is a problem we’ve known about for a long time and it’s done a lot of damage:
https://qz.com/773511/photos-this-is-the-damage-that-tiny-space-debris-traveling-at-incredible-speeds-can-do/

Ocean debris isn’t bull crap either. Garbage patches are very real:
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

[Repeal The 17th]

Now is the time for Mega Maid!

[pepsi_junkie]

By the way. the Chinese irresponsibly did an experiment where they blew up a satellite in orbit and it created something like 20,000 pieces of debris floating around up there and that's just the ones big enough for us to track.

I happened to do a little work in this domain once, it's a real problem and not a joke.

[null and void]

Number two it cost about $1 million to send 1 pound of any material into space

Source please? I recall the number as being $10,000 per kilogram, or roughly $4,500/lb.

[freedumb2003]

>>This is a problem we’ve known about for a long time and it’s done a lot of damage:<<

Look what it did to Sandra Bullock. Of course by the time she was done she reduced 2 space stations to space debris among other damage bad planning and execution caused.

On the good side, we can assume she burned george cloony to a cinder on his reentry.

[discostu]

I thought about that after the movie. Man that’s a lot of space junk.

But they had to replace the windows on the shuttle all the time, none broke through, but they were always chipped up. Part of the problem is everything in orbit is moving very fast. Even little grains of sand can do a lot of damage at 17,000 miles and hour.