Laura Helmuth: Derelict satellites pass within 1,000 kilometers of each other 1,000 times a year, and any collision would instantly double the amount of space debris. A space rush is filling up orbit with unregulated satellites, mostly from private companies, and we need better protections 🧪🔭

Derelict satellites pass within 1,000 kilometers of each other 1,000 times a year, and any collision would instantly double the amount of space debris. A space rush is filling up orbit with unregulated satellites, mostly from private companies, and we need better protections 🧪🔭

There Is Too Much Trash in Spacewww.scientificamerican.com Debris from spacecraft threatens the burgeoning space economy. We need a global agreement to keep space clean

Kessler syndrome should be renamed Elon syndrome.

yesssssss that's a brilliant idea. It'd be great to do it proactively but otherwise a starlink cluster-fu...collision might do it for us

A cluster-musk, if you will

Yes. As above, so below.

Launch one giant magnet. Problem solved. Don't forget to like and follow my channel for more poorly thought out solutions to enormous problems.

What’s this from?

literally what it says on the alt-text, a tv show about andy griffith building a spaceship to grab salvage off the moon

Oh jeez. Sorry, I missed that!

"There is too much trash in space." My headline: "Crisis: Homo sapien litters universe with toxic shit."

Who you gonna call?

This happened last month, another perk of living in FL.

People have been pointing this out for years but nobody does anything about it

A big problem here too, is that if a catastrophic “Kessler” type event were to happen, it would be *extremely* dangerous to send anything up into space to clean it up, essentially ending mankind’s forays into space for generations to come. 🤷‍♂️

An orbiting collector of some sort is long overdue.

Situation: 18,000 pieces of Space Junk. "This is getting ridiculous. We just need something to automatically collect all that junk WHILE ORBITING!" Situation: 18,041 pieces of Space J--oh, excuse me... ...I'm being told of a launch vehicle collision. There are now...31,892 pieces of space junk.

(I kid--it does sound like a good idea to addrss what's already up there!)

😱😱😱😱😱

This f****** sucks

@robertmassey.bsky.social is the UK government doing anything about this?

Probably shouting 'take back control' and passing Legislation to send them to Rwanda as well

Could we fire redundant Tory MPs into orbit and see if we can knock down some space junk? We’d need to aim carefully of course, we don’t want to add to the trash problem…….

What we'll get: actual space lasers, resulting in tons of vaporized pollution sifting back down onto the planet everywhere.

Several mitigation strategies would be needed, some of them would be a cost savings for current satellites and launchers as well. Reuseable launchers Payloads with deorbit motors Keeping comsats in high decay orbits Laser brooms (side effect making all current ICBMs obsolete)

Scientists are aware if the problem and trying to address it... www.npr.org/2021/03/21/9...

New Effort To Clean Up Space Junk Reaches Orbitwww.npr.org Known as ELSA-d, the mission will exhibit technology that could help capture space junk, some of the millions of pieces of orbital debris that float above Earth.

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