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Tracking Space Debris

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Stacy's slowly filling up with junk  as demonstrated on February 10th when a Funk show video with Russian spacecraft collided with an American communication satellite orbiting debris is becoming an increasing problem for spacecraft operators of the 6000 07 satellites launched Sputnik in 1957 only about 800 a currently active is there for orbited by huge number of disuse spacecraft that's fragments full breakup and the discarded objects used to launch them such as Rocket stages space debris poses serious threat to both space operations and in the case of man space flight human safety a chunk of metal only 10 centimeters in diameter could do Untold damage to a spacecraft such as the International Space Station for these reasons the European space agency has a team at its Opera listen Center in darmstadt Germany dedicated to monitoring the breed and giving Advance warning for operational easel satellites lava current information source is the major information sauce is from the US space surveillance Network be tracked you sing which is up there larger than 5 - 10 cm in low-earth orbit sand larger than 30 centimeters to 1 meter in the geostationary ring which is about 35800 km what's the way from us  easy was also a founding member of the inter-agency space debris Coordination Committee which brings together 11 space agencies Brown the well to tackle the problem of space debris  the commission's goal is to take active measures to preserve the space environment for future uses currently people concentrate on reducing the growth rate of the current space debris population and this is best done first of all by not launching as many objects into space particulate switch on the news for that is Mission related objects the second measure is reduce explosions in space this is for instance done by performing brands fat of the engines to get rid of the remaining fuel which otherwise could explode a second possibility is what's called space debris remediation that is really curing the problem and that is done by taking Mass from orbit and dizzy Dubai at the end of the mission the other team your satellite which will then most likely burn up the atmosphere has also begun to acquire its own methods of detecting space debris which will be combined with us readings of scientists painstakingly continue to build a space free database European telescope is already employed for these purposes he's a space to be telescope is one meter cityscope a very sensitive telescope that is located in the Africa ground system in the Tyndall effect on the title mountain in 2,400 meters shoot its role is to observe the GO station in ring and to detect objects of very small size too sensitive enough to see 10 centimeter diameter in the scale of the threat to the space environment easier hopes to expand upon these monitoring capabilities raised to be telescope can detect and follow up objects so it has a cup ability to determine orbital space objects accurate inventing objects in a catalog but in order to achieve a full coverage of objects into juices new ring more than one telescope diet to achieve this we need to network of at least three telescopes well distributed in longatude the buildup of hazardous should bring us a situation that can be responsibly mulleted and managed with the combined efforts of the global space Community incidents such as fabric can be avoided or at least kept to a minimum in the future

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