Sentences with phrase «space debris office»

«Being hit by a 1 - centimetre object at orbital velocity is the equivalent of exploding a hand grenade next to a satellite,» says Heiner Klinkrad, head of the space debris office at the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, Germany.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany, which issued the Tiangong - 1 prediction, said the March 30 to April 2 window is «highly variable,» and it will not be possible to determine exactly where the space station will fall to Earth.

But some parts will survive and reach the ground, according to the European Space Agency's Space Debris Office.

Not exact matches

Initially the crash left behind some 1,500 pieces of wreckage bigger than four inches in diameter, along with hundreds of thousands of smaller fragments, estimates Nicholas Johnson, chief scientist of the Orbital Debris Program Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

«They did acknowledge early on that the [fuel] tanks are made of aluminum,» Nick Johnson, chief scientist of NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, told SPACE.com.