Space is getting crowded — humans have now placed over 20,000 satellites into orbit since the start of the space age, and ...
A new study warns that the future could bring a sharp increase in space debris as satellites start to get stuck in Earth’s orbit because of climate change. The study, recently published in Nature ...
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Sky fall: MIT study predicts satellite traffic jams, collisions due to climate changeA shrinking thermosphere means less drag, which could hinder the natural removal of space debris. MIT team found that orbital ...
About a fifth are inactive, simply orbiting as as space junk. Over the last couple of decades, hundreds of these dead satellites have collided to create millions of pieces of shrapnel. That ...
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