PLANET DANGER METEOROID PIECE EARTH SPEED 17 SENSITIVE COSMIC WINDOW PAINT FUND PROMISE JUNK
Space junk circling our ___ is a growing problem ___ more spacecrafts are sent ___ into orbit, increasing the ___ of a collision. Some ___ the debris is natural ___ as small portions of ___ and some of it ___ artificial such as the ___ of material left over ___ old probes and rockets. ___ is estimated that there ___ more than 20,000 pieces ___ artificial debris each larger ___ a baseball floating around ___, all traveling at tremendous ___.
They travel up to ___,500 miles per hour, ___ fact, fast enough that ___ small nugget could wreck ___ structures. Luckily, there haven’t ___ many catastrophic crashes with ___ garbage, but a few ___ on space shuttles have ___ to be replaced due ___ damage caused by debris ___ small as bits of ___.
The European Commission has ___ a number of projects ___ to clean up space ___. The RemoveDEBRIS apparatus developed by researchers from Airbus and the University of Surrey in England is just one of them.
RemoveDEBRIS successfully caught a lump of space trash – specifically, a no longer needed small human made satellite – using a net. This mechanism is hoped to form the basis of future nets that will sweep up space litter around Earth, clearing the way for safer launches.
The next phase is to catch another human made satellite, but this time using cameras and LiDAR technology to target objects with better precision, and a special harpoon to capture them. A drag-sail will also bring the debris back into Earth’s atmosphere to be destroyed.
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Have fun....and take care! 258 JUN-A-2019
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Have fun....and take care! 258 JUN-A-2019
