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«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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Team leader Mauri Valtonen of the University of Turku in Finland used equations derived from Einstein's theory of general relativity to show that the pulses could be caused by a small, orbiting black hole plunging into the debris disk around the larger one, situated at one end of the orbital ellipse.
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are working on adhesive gripping tools that could grapple objects such as orbital debris or defunct satellites that would otherwise be hard to handle.
«Being hit by a 1 - centimetre object at orbital velocity is the equivalent of exploding a hand grenade next to a satellite,» says Heiner Klinkrad, head of the space debris office at the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, Germany.
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.