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Title: ESA's New Documentary Paints Worrying Picture of Earth's Orbital Junk
Problem
Link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/04/03/0...
The European Space Agency's short film Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?
highlights the growing danger of orbital clutter, warning that "70% of the
20,000 satellites ever launched remain in space today, orbiting alongside
hundreds of millions of fragments left behind by collisions, explosions and
intentional destruction." Inkl reports: The approximately eight-minute-long
film "Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?" attempts to answer its conjecture with
supportive statistics and orbital projections. [...] The film also mentions
that the kind of Earth orbit matters when discussing whether we're in a space
junk "crisis" -- though unfortunately, orbits at risk appear to be those with
satellites that help with communication and navigation, as well as our fight
against another primarily human-driven crisis: global warming. Still, the
film emphasizes that solutions ought to be thought of carefully: "True
sustainability is complex, and rushed solutions risk creating the problem of
burden-shifting." You can watch the film on ESA's website.
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