The U.S. government is taking legal steps to limit the amount of space junk after more than six decades of space races, rocket launches, planetary missions and booming satellite activity.
10,000 more dangerous pieces of space junk“Space debris is not yet at the stage where we cannot do any more space missions,” said Thomas Schildknecht, a professor of astronomy at the University of Bern in Switzerland and the director of the Zimmerwald Observatory. “But the risk is increasing, and if we don’t pay attention, then in 10 years from now we’ll be at the level where we can’t do anything.
“We get precise information so we can inform astronomers when there is something flying by, so they can choose their observing times a little differently,” he said. “It’s already a problem.”, a Pennsylvania-based company that, among other things, offers to keep satellite operators apprised about any threats in their orbits, including space debris, so they can avoid them if possible.
“They’re demonstrating that not only should you do it in five years, you should do way better than that,” he said.
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