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A Greener Planet?
Every year, in almost every country
around the world, people do their part to
clean up our Earth.
Recycling programs are everywhere, and
whether our involvement is large or
small, we all contribute to help make our
home a better place.
But what about our Earths home? Who
is looking out for outer space?
BEFORE.. AFTER
Litter Kings
U.S. produced 3,176 pieces of
space junk that are in orbit
Russia produced 2,917 pieces
China has produced 1,822
pieces
85% of new junk will orbit 100
years laterSpent Rocket
boosters are difficult to
eliminate
Soviet Space Station junk from
cosmonauts could have been
stopped.
Several countries have caused
space junk
Possible Solutions
Alternate Orbit:
MORE SOLUTIONS
When a satellite has completed its
task, it could be brought back down
to Earth where it could be properly
disposed of and/or recycled.
This could be done with the use of a
"terminator tether," also called an
electro-dynamic tether that is
rolled out, and slows down the
spacecraft.
Electrodynamic tethers
project
HOW IT WORKS.
CONCLUSION
Is space debris just
another over hyped
scientific issue, or could
this really become a larger
problem in the future?
Should we leave it all up
there, or take the time and
money to bring it down?
THANK YOU.
Refrence:
http://www.nasa.gov/
http://www.space.com/spacew
atch/space_junk.html
http
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nomy/planetearth
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