NASA Is Seeking Solutions

NASA Is Seeking Solutions Orbital Debris Threatens Our Future in Space

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NASA Is Seeking Solutions

The space agency announced yesterday that it would be funding three proposals -

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NASA Is Seeking Solutions

from various universities to better understand orbital debris and sustainability in space 

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NASA Is Seeking Solutions

As we increase our space activities, the problem of space debris becomes more and more obvious.

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NASA Is Seeking Solutions

This is a realisation shared by the European Space Agency (ESA), which earlier this year announced a partnership with Astroscale-

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NASA Is Seeking Solutions

and OneWeb to create a spacecraft to collect retired satellites in low-Earth orbit before launching a communications network with OneWeb.

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NASA Is Seeking Solutions

A wayward Russian rocket engine that had been in orbit around the planet for 15 years suddenly detonated around that time

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NASA Is Seeking Solutions

adding at least 16 more bits of space junk to the ever-expanding cloud.

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NASA Is Seeking Solutions

The spacefaring community is working to prevent the Kessler Syndrome from getting worse, -

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NASA Is Seeking Solutions

which would eventually render parts of Earth orbit inaccessible due to progressively building up space junk.-

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NASA Is Seeking Solutions

which would eventually render parts of Earth orbit inaccessible due to progressively building up space junk.-

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