Friday, September 23, 2011

Q&A: Falling satellites and space junk

msnbc.com: Technology & Science

Each dot represents a bit of known space junk that's at least 4 inches in low-Earth orbit, where the space station and shuttles roam. In total, some 19,000 manmade objects this size or bigger orbit Earth as of July 2009; most are in low-Earth orbit. Countless smaller objects are also circling the planet.With the 6.5-ton spacecraft expected to make landfall Friday, SPACE.com caught up with Ray Williamson, executive director of the Secure World Foundation, an organization dedicated to the peaceful use of outer space, to talk about space debris, UARS, and why NASA can't just destroy the darn satellite before it falls to Earth.


Sent with Reeder
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)