Medicine & TechnologyImposter stars, or quick flashes of light in the night sky, has been attributed to the increasing clump of space debris and active satellites in Earth's orbit.
Peter Beck, founder, and CEO of aerospace manufacturer Rocket Lab said that their company is starting to feel the effect of increasing congestion in outer space.
The International Space Station performs its third avoidance maneuver this year as a new piece of debris passes. Space junk is a growing problem as companies continue to launch new satellites into orbit without removing dead ones.
Millions of defunct man-made and natural space debris are causing a complicated space traffic. Space authorities are afraid of their long-term impact on working satellites and space flights.
Numerous collisions had occured when he space race began. Space debris pose danger of collisions and falling back to earth over our heads. The need to legislate, track, and remove debris is in the discussion table for operators around the world.
Space debris has been an increasingly threatening problem and scientists all over the world are working fast to solve it. Not only do they pose threats to humans outside of Earth, even humans om Earth are certain to be affected.
Fans of shoot-em-up sci fi everywhere will be thrilled with the latest proposal for freeing the International Space Station (ISS) from the need to repeatedly alter its trajectory to avoid crashing into space junk. Researchers from the Riken Computational Astrophysics Laboratory of Japan want to use a laser system to zap dangerous space debris on a collision course with the ISS.