The US will also fund research into cleaning up the space junk that's already there.
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in title, tags, annotations or urlObama declares war on space junk - space - 29 June 2010 - New Scientist - 2 views
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Obama administration also calls for research into technologies that could remove space debris already in orbit, such as laser tractor beams.
Telescope to track space junk using youth radio station - 0 views
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Team leader Professor Steven Tingay, Director of the MWA at Curtin University and Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) said the MWA will be able to detect the space junk by listening in to the radio signals generated by stations including popular youth network Triple J.
NASA Set to Launch Solar NanoSail into Space | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World - 0 views
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100 square feet;
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NASA is, rather, testing the deployment mechanism.
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In 2008, engineers were given just four months to devise a solar sail. They pulled it off, but the rocket carrying the sail experienced launch failure.
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On whether to re-brand space junk as "historical heritage"... - 3 views
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For those working on space debris removal... Watch out for moon-protection activists that will accuse you of distroying a historical heritage: "There are countless places on Earth that have been awarded protection to preserve their historic or cultural importance. The moon has none. But that may be about to change...."
Russian Craft Fails to Head to Mars Moon - 1 views
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Out-of-control Russian space probe may be 'most toxic falling satellite ever: A Russian space probe aiming to land on a Mars moon was stuck circling the Earth after equipment failure Wednesday, and scientists raced to fire up its engines before the whole thing came crashing down.
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Is it just me, or is uncontrolled space junk re-entry becoming trendy?
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this was a fantastic mission - ... what a pity!
Wild Cape York and glittering reef - 1 views
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Really interesting bit hidden in the last paragraph: Monitoring coral bleaching from space with Envisat penetrating down to a depth of 10 m "[...] Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer sensor can detect coral bleaching down to depths of ten metres, meaning Envisat could potentially map coral bleaching on a global scale."
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No, it can't :-) Since 8 April 2012 Envisat is a proud holder of the title of one of the biggest pieces of space junk out there in LEO...
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admittedly correct, so the past tense would have been a more appropriate choice... Nevertheless, plenty of data to look back at and Sentinel-3 will launch eventually! ;)
The Associated Press: Launch set for US satellite to monitor space junk - 0 views
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It's designed to give the Air Force its first full-time, space-based surveillance of satellites and debris in Earth's orbit. It monitors them for possible collisions.
FASTSAT performing well; launch of small satellite coming next week | al.com - 0 views
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Being able to launch a satellite from a satellite has numerous potential benefits to the military and scientists, but those benefits depend on the smaller satellite not hitting the mother ship when it launches and going where it needs to go.If the sail can deploy as planned to its 100-square-foot size - about as big as a six-person camping tent - and can guide the smaller satellite to its planned re-entry, it would also illustrate a new way to bring satellites back to Earth and reduce orbiting space junk.
Orbiting Dust Storm Could Remove Space Junk - 6 views
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A good example of how loosing perspective makes so-called "novel ways" actually "rubish ways"
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here the paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.1401 well spent defence funding ....
Japan developing wooden satellites to cut space junk - 1 views
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Couldn't find more details on this but sounds interesting.
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interesting indeed as a concept and to explore how far one can go to overcome some of the natural deficiencies of wood. regarding the main purpose of debris avoidance, it's typically not the structure that survives re-entry and one would have to see the environmental effect of what would be released in the atmosphere when burning.
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