2022: A record year for new space objects 🛰️ #shorts
2409 new objects were launched into space in 2022, that’s more than ever before.
Last year though, also saw a record number of satellites reenter Earth’s atmosphere.
The rising number of reentries is not necessarily a bad thing. Disposing of satellites efficiently is one of the most important things for keeping low-Earth orbits safe.
However, most objects reenter in an uncontrolled manner: they are switched off at the end of their mission and left to fall and burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.
There is good news though. Advancing technology has seen a recent increase in “controlled reentries” for rocket bodies. A controlled reentry allows operators to remove their hardware from protected regions more quickly and with greater control over where, when and how it reenters – and even lands – at the cost of allocating some fuel to do so.
By the way, just because an older satellite wasn’t designed to be controlled during its descent doesn’t mean it’s impossible to do so. In July 2023, our teams guided the Aeolus satellite to burn up over uninhabited regions in the Atlantic and Antarctica, even though the satellite was designed in the late 1990s with no intention to control it in this way.
📹 ESA – European Space Agency
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Space junk is a real problem, and it must be tackled by every nation who launches anything into low earth orbit.
Burn in Antarctica and spoil the only region free of human habitation 🙂 smart indeed… That burning causes damage to the glaciers and then the same big brains will come out crying about the rise in sea level and muster their brain on what's causing it
How many of this objects were Starlink satelites ? 70%? 80%?
After months of resisting, I finally gave in and clicked on one of those shorts to check her eyes out.
Really need to get that space debris under control before it becomes too big of a problem for future missions.
I l❤ve her.
humans wreck everything. even our universe and the sole reason of our existence.
More blind leading the blind
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When USA-EU's uncontrolled objects reenter Earth it's "freedom and democracy", when China reenters the Earth's atmosphere is "authoritarianism and communism".