Sentences with phrase «create space debris»

Would hundreds or perhaps thousands of new, tiny orbiting satellites create space debris problems?

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A September report by the National Research Council found that the debris field is so dense that collisions between objects in orbit will create additional debris faster than space junk falls out of orbit.

Earth is surrounded by a cloud of debris, both natural — such as micrometeorites and comet dust, which create meteor showers — and unnatural, including dead satellites and the cast - off detritus of space launches.

But those Sprites could not be deployed from the short - lived KickSat due to concerns that they might create (or become) uncontrollable pieces of space debris that could pose grave risks to astronauts who were in a Soyuz rocket en route to the ISS at the time.

The authors argue this was the same impact that sent a great mass of debris hurtling into space, creating the moon.

A theory exists that Mars» large North Polar Basin or Borealis Basin, which covers about 40 percent of the planet in its northern hemisphere, was created by that impact, sending debris into space.

In 1978 Kessler detailed how debris - creating satellite collisions and explosions in orbit could kick off a chain reaction that exponentially increases the amount of space junk whirling around the planet.

Almost every mission into space has created new debris, either from the launch vehicles, objects falling off satellites, or unintended collisions.

Space around Earth is littered with numerous human - made objects that could potentially collide with operating spacecraft and each other (creating more debris).

Every rocket launch creates yet more space debris, edging us ever closer to the Kessler syndrome becoming a reality.

Together with Berin Szoka of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a think - tank also based in Washington DC, Dunstan has created the outlines of an economic model that would see private industry taking responsibility for removing space debris.

US lawmakers were incensed by a 2007 Chinese anti-satellite test that created the largest space debris cloud in history when it pulverized one of its own aging satellites.

It takes most of the caffeine away, rinses off any dust or debris the leaves may have accumulated, and also «wakes» the leaves up, creating space between them and allowing for a better brew.

For the Sunroom Project Space, Gallo creates an imaginary hive interior informed by Wave Hill's beehives, using yellow, recycled, plastic bags and caution tape woven through debris netting.

Murphy's works are created using a technique that involves suspending widely - spaced individual shapes or fragments of imagery that, when viewed from side angles resemble nothing more than a floating debris field, but when viewed head - on combine to form a single, unified image.

Coexisting with these charms are pieces of rural debris that tumble into the gallery space, creating in a distinctly American cacophony.

In the second phase, the vast piles of rock and soil debris this creates — larger in volume than mountaintops themselves, because of the extra space between all those boulders — are dumped in neighboring valleys, creating so - called «valley fills.»

These energies, which span the range of medical X-ray machines and airport security scanners, trace secondary cosmic rays, the spray of debris created when primary cosmic rays from deep space hit the top of Earth's atmosphere.

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Using high - powered pulsed lasers based on Earth to create plasma jets on space debris could cause them to slow down slightly and to then re-enter and either burn up in the atmosphere or fall into the oceans.

According to Space Daily, «With GOLD there is a negligible increase in the chance of creating new dangerous orbital debris and once the object is removed from orbit, that particular threat is gone forever.»