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Pure Science

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2 weeks ago

How Saving Earth Could Ruin Orbit Satellite imaging is increasingly important to every field from crop monitoring to poverty reduction. So it’s no surprise that there have been more and more satellites launched to try to meet that growing demand. But with more satellites comes more risk for collision - and the debris field that comes after the collision. A new paper in Advanced in Space Research from John Mackintosh and his co-authors at the University of Manchester looks at how we might use mission design to mitigate some of the hazards of increasing the number of satellites even more

How Saving Earth Could Ruin Orbit #Science #Space #SpacePolicyandGovernance #SpaceDebate #EarthPreservation #OrbitImpact

www.universetoday.com/articles/how-saving-eart...

Pure Science

@purescience.news

4 months ago

Alarm Grows over Proposed Giant Mirrors in Orbit and Other Commercial Space Plans Reflect Orbital’s plan to deliver “sunlight on demand” using thousands of giant orbital mirrors is just the latest in a growing list of disruptive commercial activities in space

Alarm Grows over Proposed Giant Mirrors in Orbit and Other Commercial Space Plans #Science #Space #SpacePolicyandGovernance #SpaceDebate #CommercialSpace #SatelliteMonitoring

AlcorNews

@alcornews.bsky.social

6 months ago

Michel Mayor, Prix Nobel de physique: «Même si on devait trouver une planète abritant de la vie, l’homme n’ira jamais» De l’exploration du cosmos au petit bonheur d’observer les étoiles depuis son jardin, le Prix Nobel de physique jette un pont entre ciel et terre dans le cadre des rencontres Swiss Made Culture. Inter...

Pour Michel Mayor, découvrir une exoplanète habitable ne changera rien : l’humanité n’y mettra jamais le pied.
www.arcinfo.ch/suisse/miche...
#Space #Science #Astrophysics #Exoplanets #SpaceDebate

AlcorNews

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6 months ago

Pour Michel Mayor, découvrir une exoplanète habitable ne changera rien : l’humanité n’y mettra jamais le pied.
www.arcinfo.ch/suisse/michel-mayor-prix...
#Space #Science #Astrophysics […]

Pure Science

@purescience.news

7 months ago

Record US$5.3M Sale of Largest Mars Rock Sparks Global Dispute All the science news you can handle in a single feed

Record US$5.3M Sale of Largest Mars Rock Sparks Global Dispute #Science #Space #PlanetaryScience #MarsRock #SpaceDebate #GlobalDispute

Pure Science

@purescience.news

7 months ago

Is Earth Orbit Doomed to be a Billionaire’s Playground? If you want to get to the moon, you need to spend an enormous amount of resources developing, creating, testing, and deploying a variety of spacecraft and technologies.

Is Earth Orbit Doomed to be a Billionaire’s Playground? #Science #Space #SpacePolicyandGovernance #SpaceDebate #BillionairesInSpace #OrbitEconomy

@nethype.bsky.social

10 months ago

he wasn’t just chasing stars—he was staking a claim in the next era of space travel.
Is this the dawn of commercial spaceflight or just a high-altitude flex?
You decide.
#BlueOrigin #JeffBezos #NewShepard #SpaceDebate #BlueSky

anakkeempat

@anakkeempat.bsky.social

10 months ago

The Ugly Truth Behind the All-Female Blue Origin Flight Feminism, fame, and flexing in zero gravity—here’s why Blue Origin’s all-female space trip went viral for all the wrong (or right) reasons.

Katy Perry, Gayle King, and Lauren Sánchez's journey to space with Blue Origin: a historic moment or a media spectacle?
Let's discuss the implications.
Details here: www.hpmusic.id/post/they-we...

#BlueOrigin #WomenInSpace #SpaceDebate #kattyperry​

Pure Science

@purescience.news

1 year ago

Greenhouse Emissions Threaten The Future of Low Earth Orbit, Scientists Warn Shocking new projections emerge.

Greenhouse Emissions Threaten The Future of Low Earth Orbit, Scientists Warn #Science #Space #SpacePolicyandGovernance #SpaceDebate #ClimateChange #GreenhouseGases

Countdown to Extinction

@countdown2ext.bsky.social

1 year ago

Greenhouse Emissions Threaten The Future of Low Earth Orbit, Scientists Warn The continued release of greenhouse gases into Earth's atmosphere could increase the longevity of space junk in low Earth orbit, a new paper reveals.

Greenhouse Emissions Threaten The Future of Low Earth Orbit, Scientists Warn #Science #Space #SpacePolicyandGovernance #SpaceDebate #ClimateChange #GreenhouseGases

Esmie

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1 year ago

Has SpaceX brought Earth out of orbit already?

#SpaceXImpact #OutOfOrbit #SpaceXFuture #CosmicQuestions #SpaceDebate #EarthInMotion