The chances parts of a space rocket re-enter Earth's atmosphere and strike a human being appears to be growing, says a new UBC study.
Space rocket junk floating in orbit around planet Earth has a six to 10 per cent chance of severely injuring or killing a human being in the next decade, says a new study from the University of British Columbia .
"Is it permissible to regard the loss of human life as just a cost of doing business, or is it something that we should seek to protect when we can?" questioned Michael Byers, the study's lead author and a professor in UBC's department of political science, in a press release.These measures could be the mandated transition from single to double hulls on oil tankers or having engines that reignite to guide the rocket parts to remote ocean areas.
Using more than 30 years of data from a public satellite catalogue, the researchers calculated the potential risk to human life in 10 years.
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