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Space Objects
11
May

Nobody Wants Rules in Space

May 11, 2021
Source: https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/05/nobody-wants-rules-space/173870/ As space becomes more crowded, there’s little hope for new international rules to make it safer. By Patrick Tucker, Technology Editor May 6th, 2021 Debris from a crashing Chinese rocket hurtling toward Earth and a Russian projectile-shooting spy satellite are the two examples of a big problem: too few rules governing how nations behave in space. Wednesday...
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06
May

Will the debris from the recently launched Chinese rocket end up in the oceans?

May 6, 2021
What happened to the last Chinese rocket remains that fell from space? Loren Gush from the Verge reported in May 2020: An out-of-control Chinese rocket may have dumped debris in Africa after falling from space On Monday, a massive, out-of-control Chinese rocket fell out of the sky off the west coast of Africa, becoming one...
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01
Apr

The proliferation of space objects is a rapidly increasing source of artificial night sky brightness

April 1, 2021
M Kocifaj, F Kundracik, J C Barentine, S Bará, The proliferation of space objects is a rapidly increasing source of artificial night sky brightness, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 2021;, slab030, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slab030 Abstract The population of artificial satellites and space debris orbiting the Earth imposes non-negligible constraints on both space operations and ground-based optical...
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01
Apr

Satellites contribute significant light pollution to night skies

April 1, 2021
Source: Royal Astronomical Society https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/satellites-contribute-significant-light-pollution-night-skies by Robert Massey on Mon, 29/03/2021 Scientists reported new research results today suggesting that artificial objects in orbit around the Earth are brightening night skies on our planet significantly more than previously understood. The research, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, finds that the number of objects orbiting...
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