Being able to get out of the atmosphere of our planet, space junk It’s getting harder and harder every day. From decaying satellites to rocket fragments, straying in our orbit, black lead There are tens of thousands of large and millions of small pieces traveling around like NASA According to a statement made by International Space Station currently grappling with this threat.
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The International Space Station has made an evasive maneuver!
an old Chinese the piece that broke off from the weather satellite and moved in orbit International Space StationIt is estimated that it will pass within a few hundred meters. Like this space junk It has become an increasingly routine procedure. For this reason, to avoid collision “space debris avoidance maneuverAn action called ” has been planned.
Preliminary calculations, space junk Thursday, November 11 at around 8 pm on the day International Space StationIt shows that ‘s will come close to 1,970 feet (600 meters). This distance is said to be too close to risk. So today at 3 pm International Space Station, moved from the area where it was transported further.
A NASA The spokesperson said in the e-mail:
The aforementioned satellite part is now to the International Space Station The probability and risk of collision is very low. This maneuver was also a completely standard space station action. In addition, the crew did not have to take any special action.
International Space Station in the last 22 years, three of them in 2020, 29 evasive maneuvers performed. the last one September 22, 2020in a Japanese It was made because the space junk belonging to the rocket would pass within about 1.4 kilometers. These numbers are expected to increase in the coming days. Therefore, the systems are ISSIt provides protection against dangers by scanning its surroundings.
Getting into space will get harder and harder!
On average per hour 28 thousand kilometers These satellites and rockets, which move at such speed, become dangerous members of the space junk when their life is over, they fail or are destroyed by an accident. Since it is relatively easy to detect tens of thousands of large debris, precautions can be taken some time in advance.
For this reason, the real danger sizes not exceeding a human tooth, lead at least 60 times faster moving, almost impossible to detect, and the number of hundreds of millions These micro-debris are said to be found. Even for this reason, 2030It is said that all the rockets sent into space in the ‘s will be at risk and that each rocket that explodes may make the space junk even more dangerous.
Scientists continue to work on this issue. So we are not completely helpless. However, since the developed net and magnet-based systems are still in the prototype stage, no cleaning process can be done at the moment. Therefore, even when countries and companies want to send the smallest satellite into space, they repeatedly work on various simulations against the problems they may encounter.
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