Sentences with phrase «for orbital debris»
«If a spacecraft is lost due to being hit by debris, the odds are the satellite will be hit by something the trackers can't see,» said Nicholas Johnson, NASA chief scientist (retired) for orbital debris at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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When it came time to pick the chair of the panel, the choice was obvious: Don Kessler, a 71 - year - old retired NASA scientist who has been warning the world about orbital debris for more than 30 years.
Those looking for posts / pages on specific topics, please look in the margin at left for links to the series concerning the missing Malaysian airliner (flight MH370); about astronomy and space science; and about orbital debris.
The leading theory for Charon's formation is that it formed similar to the way that the Earth and Moon have formed: from the accumulated orbital debris that surrounded Pluto after a giant impactor hit the latter during the early history of the Solar System.
NASA is investing in technology concepts that include meteoroid impact detection, space telescope swarms and small orbital debris mapping technologies that may one day be used for future space exploration missions.