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Experts have been sounding alarm bells for years that Earth orbit is getting a bit too crowded. So how many satellites can we actually launch to space before it gets to be too much?
The award funds research, led by the College of Optics and Photonics, to accurately visualize space debris, which is crucial to avoiding catastrophic collisions and mission-ending damage.
"We need to address space debris so that space is sustainable and remains a working environment," Ezinne Uzo-Okoro, assistant director for space policy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), said today.