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Comments: 9 Last by Silwin Pereira on Jul 22, 2013, 5:41am
You may be asking yourself what is this space junk I speak of, and why am I bothering you with this.. Well, I am glad you asked!
Space Junk is pretty much anything that is left over, discarded, or no longer functioning, that happens to orbit our little globe here.
It can be debris from a space collision, left over parts from rockets, satellites, launch vehicles. Any object that is left adrift, floating in space in our immediate vicinity.
As you may be aware, the growing problem of space junk is becoming more real with every new launch that occurs.
You see, every single satellite system, shuttle mission, or top secret government experiment that is launched into space, requires (at this point) rockets to get there.
As they ascend and maneuver themselves into their target position, they shed large amounts of solid components that have served their purpose, and are no longer required. These can be burned out motor cases, or smaller connecting rings that held the separate stages of the rockets together, or even nuts and bolts that have been ejected.
These shed components, they don’t go anywhere.. they just hang out in orbit for a really really long time, till they eventually come crashing down to Earth. Usually burning up and dis . . .
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What a waist of time. Nothing new for curious people. I can tell the guy is into video gaming a lot. Good graphics and scientific language. Using just that, does not mean it is going to be a good m. . .Read More
Everyone keeps taking about it but no one does nothing. This mission to clear ll the space junk would cost billions but this should be something that needs to be undertaken by all the countries col. . .Read More
Buddha had revealed in his teaching more than 2500 years ago that the sense of self is an illusion created by the mind. many buddhist suttas which recorded the teachings of the B. . .Read More
Just wanted to say "Great article!" even though nobody's been here for quite awhile. Got here by googling lagrange points upon reading of the deactivation of the Herschel space telescope. Interesti. . .Read More
Give them credit for putting ideas out there to ponder. This is a complex universe and it will not be explained and defined in a three-word sentence. GROW UP ,LISTEN AND LEARN !!Read More