»Plastic Island: Space is Filling up with Junk but Elon Musk isn t Telling You That
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Plastic Island: Space is Filling up with Junk but Elon Musk isn t Telling You That
Space debris in Earth s geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) and the cloud of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO). | Image for representation
If Galileo were alive today, he would see not the stars and planets that he saw from his telescope but the millions of pieces of space debris and plastic hanging around in space today.
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In the 17th-century, when Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei looked out into the unknown vastness of space using his ingenious telescope, he saw the sun, the moon, planets, and stars. Had the polymath been looking through the telescope in the year 2021, he perhaps would have been disappointed to find not stars and other space oddities so eulogized by mortals but bits of trash and plastic.
14 Jan 2021 | News
To boldly go: EU wants to make a great leap in the space race
‘We need to be more offensive and aggressive,’ says EU Internal Market commissioner Thierry Breton, as he outlines a plan to put hundreds of communications satellites into space to run the internet
EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton. Photo: EU Commission.
The EU is pledging big investment in a new era of space commercialisation, joining a queue of companies and governments aiming to provide internet service from space.
The idea is to send a constellation of hundreds of internet-beaming satellites into orbit. EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton this week said he wanted to get going as soon as possible.