{"id":120798,"date":"2023-10-29T11:29:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T11:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uklevitrasupport.com\/?p=120798"},"modified":"2023-10-29T11:29:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T11:29:04","slug":"space-junk-impossible-to-sort-as-chinas-behaviour-sends-shrapnel-soaring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uklevitrasupport.com\/world-news\/space-junk-impossible-to-sort-as-chinas-behaviour-sends-shrapnel-soaring\/","title":{"rendered":"Space junk ‘impossible’ to sort as ‘China’s behaviour’ sends shrapnel soaring"},"content":{"rendered":"

An ominous warning has been issued over the vast amounts of space junk floating around above Earth.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the Daily Star revealed that space had a junk problem and that nobody was willing to fix it. For decades, humans have been sending rockets, satellites, human poo and other random objects into space all in the name of science.<\/p>\n

But when missions go wrong and rockets explode, or junk is ejected into space, the debris is left to float endlessly until the end of time. And speaking exclusively to the Daily Star, top British astronomer Professor Chris Impey has said that it the issue is now so bad that it is \u201calmost impossible to deal with\u201d \u2013 and had one country in mind as the worst offender.<\/p>\n

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The University Distinguished Professor, at the Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona said: \u201cThe problem is that space is huge and the pieces are small, so any mitigation strategy will be inefficient and time-consuming. Large satellites are now designed to de-orbit, and SpaceX's constellation satellites are in low enough orbits that drag takes them down in five to seven years.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the junk that is up there will stay there, and the small bits are almost impossible to deal with. \u201cAt least everyone is now fully aware of the problems \u2013 bad behaviour doesn't help. When China blew up one of its own satellites it put another few thousands of pieces of high-speed shrapnel in play.<\/p>\n

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