space junk
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There’s so Much Space Junk in Orbit it’s Threatening Lives Here on Earth
Space is pretty damn cool. It’s full of planets, stars, weird gaseous formations and probably some funky looking life forms that we may never be able to prove exist. But one thing we can be sure of is that there’s a ton of junk in space.
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Japanese Researchers Are Making Wooden Satellites Because We Have a Space Trash Problem
Floating around the Earth is a bunch of satellites. Cool for GPS, monitoring weather patterns, and the internet — not so cool for space junk. This is why Sumitomo Forestry and Kyoto University are teaming up to create the world’s first wooden satellites by 2023.
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New Mini-Moon Might Actually Be Old Space Junk Coming Back to Haunt Us
Earth will soon welcome a temporary mini-moon, but this newly detected object, an apparent asteroid, might actually be of unnatural origin — a booster rocket dating back to the 1960s.
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U.S. Approves Amazon’s Bid to Launch a Constellation of More Than 3,200 Internet Satellites
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission gave Amazon the go-ahead Thursday for its ambitious Project Kuiper, which would put 3,236 broadband satellites into orbit to beam internet coverage down to Earth. With this regulatory milestone secured, Amazon’s posed to join SpaceX in the race to be the first multi-billionaire-dollar tech giant to gobble up the Space…