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| The race to provide space internet entire planet raises fears |
Space companies, from SpaceX to Elon Musk to OneWeb creation, are trying to launch satellites into space to achieve global coverage of the Earth's Internet, but experts say this is a big problem and this is unnecessary called lost space.
This floating waste will disrupt future space missions, launch satellites and even return objects to Earth.
According to the European Space Agency (ESA) issued by the European Space Agency, more than 5,000 launches involving about 9,000 satellites have been launched into space since the late 1950's.
There are still about 5,000 satellites in space, but fewer than 2,000 operate. These artificial objects (which can be whole satellites or even parts of missiles) are called space debris.
The European Space Agency stated that 22,300 pieces of debris could be found, but hundreds of thousands have not been found.
Wasting space became more dangerous for many reasons because when the missile is launched, certain parts of the missile are separated from the body of the car and these parts explode and fragment into many fragments, which increases the area of waste.
Another big problem is that countries have launched anti-satellite missiles. For example, China bombed one of these missiles in 2007. In this incident alone, the number of traceable debris increased by 25%. Use similar missiles.
"Imagine how dangerous it is to sail on the high seas when all the missing ships in history are still floating on the water," Yan Warner, director of the European Space Agency, said in a statement released last year. the past.
What is the problem:
The biggest problem now is the plan to launch thousands of satellites from companies such as SpaceX and OneWeb to create Earth-orbiting satellites that provide Internet access to the world anywhere.
SpaceX and OneWeb began launching satellites to create a network of satellites connected to satellites operating in Earth orbit less than 2,000 km away. Waste of space is associated with so many dangers that it can sink, linked to the International Space Station and even the inhabited space. The plane collided.
Satellites may also collide with each other, and the European Space Agency has warned the European Space Agency that large quantities of space debris entering the uncensored atmosphere can reach Earth and pose a threat to Earth's inhabitants.
"The space environment is very sensitive and we use a small workspace, but the satellite program in orbit close to Earth occupied the main part of the world and it is more crowded. Weak," said Christopher Newman, professor of space law and politics at Northumbria University.
What is being done:
Several projects have received formal approval to dispose of floating space waste. Last year, the European Space Agency mandated a consortium led by Swiss ClearSpace to remove some waste from space.
A video on ClearSpace shows how its technology works. The spaceship will send to space debris and send an automatic robotic arm to collect the element that will begin in 2025.
The Japanese Space Agency has also commissioned Astroscale to start to remove space debris, a task slated to begin in 2022.