Protecting our future in space
By David Wright and Laura Grego | Wednesday, Ovtober 3, 2007 | The Boston Globe
The fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik’s launch prompts a look at the hundreds of satellites, owned by dozens of nations, that currently orbit earth, many of them providing essential services. There are also literally hundreds of thousands of pieces of ‘space junk’ orbiting the planet that threaten the safety of the satellites. Plus there is overcrowding, particularly in the ‘geostationary band’, the orbital distance that permits an orbiting satellite to remain above a particular point on earth. The writers propose a series of international conferences to protect these diminishing assets…BS
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