Sentences with phrase «how space junk»

Some craft are more vulnerable to debris than others, says Lewis, who has developed software to model how space junk spreads and evolves over time.

Not exact matches

Now NASA has to figure out how to keep a hail of space junk from bringing down the shuttle, the space station, and a lot of satellites

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.

To make this idea more tangible, Lewis is treating satellites and space junk as elements in a kind of mathematical network, a network whose connections reveal how many objects a given satellite approaches in orbit (Acta Astronautica, vol 66, p 257).

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

Fans of modern shooters will have no use for this trite, monotonous junk, and fans of the original Space Invaders will simply be appalled at how Taito has butchered its classic gameplay into this one - dimensional mess.

Aside from the peculiar beauty of rusting hulks on forgotten battlefields, anemone - covered battleships on the seabed and cars being consumed by forests, these images introduce us to unusual stories: how a car standing on its nose in the Nevada desert has inspired an artist into making a design feature from junked cars, a Canadian schooner that sank in 1885 and rests preserved to this day in a harbor in Lake Huron, and a space shuttle left gathering dust in a hangar.

Scientists have been calling out for clever ideas on how to clean up space junk for years now, and with President Obama's recent backing of getting the outskirts of our planet cleared of debris, more ideas seem to be pouring in.