Sentences with phrase «of space junk»

A piece of the rocket that took it into orbit was the very first piece of space junk.

This is an artist's conception of space junk; the sizes of the pieces are greatly exaggerated.

Of the hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk in Earth's orbit, more than 20,000 are larger than 10 centimetres across — big enough to smash a piece off a satellite and create even more orbiting junk.

The SSA task is becoming more complex with the proliferation of space junk orbiting the Earth.

Chances of getting hit are less than one in a trillion, reports CNBC's Morgan Brennan, with a look at the growing threat of space junk landing on the planet.

This NASA graphic depicts the amount of space junk currently orbiting Earth.

A key advantage of an offshore anchorage is mobility; the entire station could be moved every few days to allow the ribbon to avoid large chunks of space junk.

HELIUM balloons are known for pulling things up, but they could be a great way to drag defunct satellites down towards Earth, ensuring they don't contribute to the proliferation of space junk.

As soon as they run out of fuel, they become bits of space junk cluttering the cosmos.

In 2009, after two telecom satellites smashed into each other, the U.S. National Research Council commissioned a team of experts to examine whether NASA was doing enough to address the growing problem of space junk.

The U.S. is now taking preliminary steps to manage the threat of space junk by implementing better tracking systems.

The six crew members of the International Space Station prepared to abandon ship when NASA spotted a piece of space junk hurtling toward them at 29,000 miles per hour.

He also incorporated the orbits of 27,000 pieces of space junk into a musical instrument called Machine 9.

«A piece of space junk just 10 centimetres across could catastrophically damage a typical satellite»

A boom in nanosatellites could revolutionize space science and industry, but also dramatically increase the hazards of space junk

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

NASA and the international community are concerned about the environmental damage CubeSats could cause, says Don Kessler, a retired NASA senior scientist whose name will forever be enshrined in the pantheon of space junk specialists.

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.

The mix of space junk includes unused spacecraft, flecks of paint released by thermal stress, solid rocket engine effluents, and at least one astronaut tool bag.

The broader archaeological community recently began to take this idea seriously, says space archaeologist Alice Gorman of Flinders University in Australia, who has researched the cultural significance of space junk, among other artifacts of spaceflight.

The same can not be said for the estimated 200,000 pieces of space junk between 1 and 10 centimetres across that we can not see.

It will still be quite some time before Brane Crafts are unleashed upon the hordes of space junk orbiting our planet.

Earth is surrounded by a giant bubble of space junk — but similar trash rings around other planets might be a clue as we go hunting for technologically advanced life beyond humans.

Bonus materials carried over from the previous Blu - ray Disc release, include a documentary narrated by Ed Harris on the issue of space junk that is crowding near - Earth space, and a short additional scene that shows the other side of a radio communication between Sandra Bullock's character and someone on Earth.

Thanks to a flurry of space junk, George and two other creatures become the size of buildings and thrash everything in their path to smithereens.

Are there any laws limiting the production of Space Junk, like there would be laws preventing a company from putting their waste in the ocean?

As little risk as there may be of debris hitting someone, it's good practice not to take that risk if you don't have to, and good manners not to dispose of your space junk over someone else's country.

It can be deployed from a spacecraft or rocket after a mission is completed, or even attached to larger pieces of debris with an orbital robot so that the big chunks of space junk can be brought down as quickly as the smaller stuff.

Makes one really wish there was a make - believe diety in the sky to send a piece of space junk his way.

And there's a 3 % chance that the rocket stage will burn up in Earth's atmosphere sometime in the next 10 years, cleansing the solar system of at least one piece of space junk.

It wasn't a meteorite or a piece of space junk, says a major report — it was human error on multiple levels

More than 20,000 pieces of space junk are larger than a softball, but there are millions more that are too small to track, NASA officials have said.

Researchers from Aalborg University Esbjerg have invented a simple self - expanding construction which will allow them to remove some of this space junk in the future.

Scientists in Great Britain are developing a giant harpoon which could grab some of the space junk and pull it down toward Earth where it can burn up.

Sharing his work on Instagram, Kesinger weaves a retelling that sees Ray and BB - 8 sledding down a hill on a piece of space junk — almost like a toboggan in the snow.