Sentences with phrase «about space junk»

While the orbital equivalent of a used - car salesman selling satellite parts is some way off, the need to do more about space junk is immediate.

Not exact matches

Moody's, which rates the company Baa3 (one notch above junk) with negative outlook, had a special word in July about the space CBL is in with its sales per square foot of $ 373:

The first space station China ever launched is about to return to Earth as a mess of ultra-hot, supersonic space junk.

Space agencies continue to monitor the debris as new objects are added every few days (from launches, collisions, and explosions) and old junk falls back through the atmosphere, which happens about once a day.

It's 35 feet long and about 13,000 pounds, which is large by space junk standards.

How about using a tractor beam to simply steer future junk aside, says space - flight engineer John Sinko of Nagoya University, Japan.

Scottsdale, AZ About Blog Junk in the Trunk Vintage Market inspires creativity by curating spaces to embrace a vintage lifestyle.

Scottsdale, AZ About Blog Junk in the Trunk Vintage Market inspires creativity by curating spaces to embrace a vintage lifestyle.

Aiming for innocuous, then, it makes as much hay as it can from declensions of «fuck,» surprise fatalities, and nut - shots, including a running gag about the size of Paul's space - junk.

Building on Artists Space's history as an institution whose program has increasingly emphasized community participation and political organization (see last year's Decolonize This Place, which turned the gallery into a weekly activist meeting hub), Coop Fund foregoes traditional media like painting or sculpture in favor of video, art - science hybrids, updated junk sculpture, and institutional critique, making an implicit statement about these media that, for their associations with high - modernist seriousness, are appropriate to a politically engaged exhibition.

After many interesting ideas from various folks about what to do with all the space junk floating around Earth — a problem and danger to both astronauts and folks down on terra firma — here is one we can really get behind.

So That's What Happened to UARS An old stalwart of NASA's Earth - observing fleet, the six - ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), came tumbling through the atmosphere in an uncontrolled reentry in late - September that generated a slew of headlines about the risks of being struck by falling space junk.

Dr. Kristin L. Gates of the Global Aerospace Corporation (GAC) will present the idea of GOLD, a patented system that uses an ultra thin balloon envelope — thinner than a plastic sandwich bag — inflated with gas to the size of a sports field (about 100 years in diameter) that will increase drag enough that the space junk will enter the earth's atmosphere and burn up.

My husband and I live in a fairly small rental townhouse, and I feel like it's really helped me to live with a «less is more» mentality — I'm good about getting rid of junk and not buying knick - knacks because I know there is no space.

I'm talking about the space that corals everyone's junk and keeps the counters from getting bogged down with stuff.