Mar 18th 2022
This Week in Space 3
The Orbital Junkyard
Hosted by
Rod Pyle,
Tariq Malik
Earth and space junk, Mars helicopter continues, comrades in space!
New episodes posted every Friday.
Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik take a look at space junk—what is it, where did it come from, and what can be done about it. The sheer amount of debris orbiting Earth is a serious threat to ongoing missions and must be addressed, or we may find ourselves permanently earthbound. Also, the SLS rolls out, astronauts and cosmonauts stay friends, and the Mars helicopter flies on. All on this episode of This Week in Space.
Image credit: ESA/ID&Sense/ONiRiXEL – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
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Links
- NASA's new moon rocket, its most powerful ever, rolls out for 1st time
- Steve Wozniak's startup Privateer plans to launch hundreds of satellites to study space debris
- Space Force launches ‘Orbital Prime’ program to spur market for on-orbit services
- Space Debris and Human Spacecraft
- Kessler Syndrome and the space debris problem
- Who's going to fix the space junk problem?