Keeping Tabs on Earth's Orbiting Junkyard in Space

Keeping Tabs on Earth's Orbiting Junkyard in Space

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

US-Iran Relations, Space Junk, Methane

Episode: US-Iran Relations, Space Junk, Methane

  • Aug 6, 2018 9:00 pm
  • 13:49 mins

Guest: David Geller, PhD, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Utah State University We humans leave garbage wherever we go — including space. An enormous high-speed junkyard now orbits our planet, threatening satellites and space travel. Recently, a European Space Agency satellite was almost knocked out by hurtling debris. Is there something to be done about that?