Thursday, December 5, 2024

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 119 — Junkyard in Space

AstronomyThis Week In Space podcast: Episode 119 — Junkyard in Space


Junkyard in Space – The Dangers of Orbital Debris – YouTube


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On Episode 119 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. John Crassidis from the University of Buffalo about orbital debris and its dangers.

If you saw the movie “Gravity,” you have a sense of the dangers of orbital debris—and the risk is very real. More than 25,000 objects over four inches in diameter are tracked by the US Space Force, and millions of others are smaller or untracked—everything from derelict satellites to dead rocket stages to bits of shrapnel and even just chunks of frozen rocket fuel is there. And even something the size and mass of a paint chip, traveling at orbital speeds, can take out a window of a spacecraft.

Look out below; this is going to be a hot one!

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