Space Junk: The Green Problem No One Ever Talks About

Space debris is a green issue, which several people in the history of the discussion - or even think o. It is not our ring around the Earth of space junk - more than 9000 man-made elements, including, from the nuts and bolts to large, now lapsed communication satellites weighing one thousand pounds. Most of these facilities will only be peacefully orbit for decades, and then start to fall and disintegrate completely before touchdown. But sometimes, when the larger satellites prematurely lose power and come with their orbits, pieces of them may touchdown in populated areas. Not only there is little danger of damage to property, there is also a risk of damage to the environment, since some of these satellites contain hazardous materials.

Case in point is today’s CNN News article by the U.S. government on satellite navigation, that it is expected that this decline ever in February or March, as a result of its loss of power. According to the report, the satellite “may contain hazardous materials, and do not know where our planet may go down.” Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for the National Security Council, was quoted as saying: “relevant government agencies are monitoring the situation.” It sounds a bit like a warning for me.

“Many satellites over the years have come from orbit and fell harmlessly,” Johndroe said. “We are already on the potential for mitigating any possible damage that can cause satellites.”

Apparently there is some speculation that the government could shoot down a target missile using satellites. According to the article, “NASA engineers successfully carried out the safe de-orbit to 17 ton of Compton Gamma Ray Observatory,” in 2000, “using rockets on board satellites in order to adapt it to the distant Pacific Ocean.”

According to the report, 78 ton of abandoned space station Skylab, which fell from the sky in 1979, was the largest piece of space junk sharply to the Earth so far. It is his debris scattered across the Indian Ocean and western parts of remote Australia. Apparently not affect the man never was struck and killed by the man-made space debris.

Not only this place garbage pose little threat to property, and possibly people on earth, but also poses a threat to manned space missions, such as the United States Space Shuttle program, manned space stations, not to mention research rockets. If the space station or one of the space shuttle, ever collided with one of these objects, as has been declining, the result could be disastrous.

There is a growing awareness of the problem, as we launch more and more communications satellites; the number of large, heavy and potentially dangerous space junk items will rapidly grow. I should point out that the U.S. is not the only country responsible, Russia, China, India, Japan and France will also contribute to the problem, they will take it to the international effort to do something about it.

… And then there is a minor point that no one has really come up with a solution to this problem!
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