Waste360 is part of the Informa Markets Division of Informa PLC

This site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them. Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726.

Need to Know

Space Trash Poses Threat

Article-Space Trash Poses Threat

Getty Images/iStockphoto satellitefeat.png

Space has been described as the final frontier, and it's swimming with garbage.

As countries have raced to study the unknown, satellites and other debris have been circling the Earth. Collisions have become more imminent as new satellites are launched and others go offline. Yet, countries have failed to reclaim their devices.

What can be done to stop the proliferation of space trash? A treaty been nations could be a start. NASA should research removal tech, says Adam Minter.

Read the entire article here.

 

Hide comments
account-default-image

Comments

  • Allowed HTML tags: <em> <strong> <blockquote> <br> <p>

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
Publish