The Dangers Of Space Habits

Pollution is now out of this world because according to “Cleaning up the Space Junk” “the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA has estimated that about 22,000 pieces of this pollution are as large as a softball and about 500,000 of them are closer to the size of a marble and there are possibly hundreds of millions of smaller pieces are also floating around the planet”.Based on the video “Space Junk” “the fail of Cosmos 54 led to fear of radioactive contamination from its nuclear power packs and that then confirmed that space junk can and will fall to Earth.And smaller pieces travel at an incredibly fast speed 17,000 to 21,000 mph so the damage that little tiny piece can do is potentially enormous.All

Although space junk may seem trivial,it is in fact crucial in terms of today's concern over everyday life. Apparently Nasa has just been throwing it out the window into our atmosphere, which is causing a gigantic problem. Some experts say there are just some things like satellites they cannot take back to earth. They say that they would only do it in in rare cases. If they take the things up there how come they can't take back it down to earth. They are trying to find a way to bring the trash back.

It is impossible to stimulate our economy or to find new things in space without a space effort. The space exploration has only begun and it has only been happening for four decades so why stop something that only has truly begun.

Although it may seem that we do not have problems in space, we actually do, asteroids are coming earlier than ever before in the chart Known Near-earth Asteroids claims that in 1986 there were barely 2000 NEAs and in 2013 there was over 12000! This shows that we need to prepare for bigger asteroids that could come at anytime! Imagine how that chart could go up in the next decade. NASA should fund asteroid studies because they could come up with a way to defend our earth from big asteroids.

Space junk is a very important because it can cause harm, not only to NASA, but to Earth and everyone on Earth. Scientists are trying their best to find a way to stop it from doing this, but with people that are as smart as them in one room trying to make a decision is not easy.

As these orbital objects continue to add up, space is growing all the more crowded, and presently, space enthusiasts are becoming increasingly concerned with the junk left by defunct satellites, spent rocket stages, and even small bits of trash leftover from old explosions. In recent years, attention-seeking news media developed a controversy about the topic of space junk, creating a misinformed and panicked populous which distrusts the information provided by space enthusiasts and legitimate space agencies. However, when provided the right information, both sides can agree that space junk is an issue that needs to be handled, but not one that will cause a major

Inert satellites, the upper phases of dispatch vehicles, tossed bits left over from detachment, and even solidified billows of water and small specks of paint all stay in circle high over Earth's environment. When one piece crashes into another, much more trash is discharged. More than 21,000 bits of space refuse bigger than 4 inches (10 centimeters) and a large portion of a million bits of garbage between 1 cm and 10 cm are evaluated to circle the planet. What's more, the number is just anticipated to go up.

The size of the debris particles determines how much potential damage it can cause. Particles ranging from 1 to 10 centimeters in diameter are observable and if a collision occurs, it would have the potential to damage a satellite (NASA Orbital Debris Program Office, 2012).. Although there are millions of smaller sized particles in the atmosphere, they do not affect humans on Earth because they can burn whereas the larger particles have the potential to fall onto Earth and bring about a catastrophe. Most fallen objects include spacecraft particles slowly spiral down toward Earth and land in the ocean, which makes up 70% of Earth (Urry, 2014). It is rare that these debris will fall onto the land on Earth due to the lesser area. But, according to NASA, an average of one piece of orbital debris falls towards Earth every year for the past 50 years (NASA Orbital Debris Program Office, 2012). This means that the probability of causing a catastrophic event to occur on Earth is actually a low chance. The main

There has been a lot of talking about the increasing problem of space debri because of the amount of trash that we globally have thrown into space each year. People don’t know that having so much junk out there in the atmosphere is dangerous for satellites, future space launches, therefore there should be someway to fix this problem. Globally we need to work together on the unresolved issue of space junk.

In 2009 there was an unfortunate case where a U.S. communications satellite collided with a Russian satellite causing a massive explosion and creating a lot of space debris. Unfortunately space collisions often happen due to the debris in space. In 1980 only 5000 pieces of debris were tracked and scientists did not think this was such an important matter. In 2010 the space debris was over double the amount it was in 1980. There was over 15,000 pieces of debris in orbit which caused scientists to worry. Engineers and scientists came together and decided to build what we call the space fence to detect objects before they can come in contact with satellites. Radars and energy were imperative

The space debris implies all man-made objects in space and their fragments, which are already defective and will never be able to serve any useful purposes. They include old artificial satellites, the upper stages of space launch vehicles, the fragments of exploded rockets, and so on. All these objects form dense layers around the Earth. In October 1979, the Johnson Space Center in the United States created the first specialized unit for research on space debris category at the initiative of NASA (Nelson 2014). Then, the international community has recognized the growing danger of space debris and the urgent need for measures to prevent its formation. Finally, it created the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (Nelson 2014). It is the most influential organization, which covers the full range of issues associated with space

Due to the exponential increasing of human population and the limited resources availability, space colonization became a goal for the survival of human civilization and expansion of the human population. However, we have to acknowledge that we, the Earth’s living beings, have been evolving under the control of Earth’s environmental and climate changes, especially the effects of Earth’s gravity and exposure to sunlight, since 4100 million years ago. From a single-stranded of DNA to the formation of prokaryotes, the trials-and-errors of chemical processes created a stable and favorable system for us to live. For us, the human beings undoubtedly evolved from lots more obstacles and challenges. As a reminder of the ratio of size scale of Earth to Solar system, which is overwhelmingly large, the dangers and challenges would even be greater in million folds. Yet, the smartest and most creative living beings, humans, are going for this exploitation and exploration as an all-or-null challenge for future generations.

The main plot the science fiction paper includes a trip to a planet out of the solar system, including a record of the long flight to the destination and a description of the scenarios after landing on the plant. Discussion of space debris, space hazards, effect of long term space flight will be the main aspects in the record of the flight alongside with an introduction of the spacecraft technology. Regarding the post-landing scenario, atmospheric composition, condition of the planet surface and habitability of the planet would be discussed in the paper.

Thus, what we commonly refer to as orbital debris is the man-made debris. Technically, it is defined as any space object made by human beings, which previously orbits around the Earth and is currently out of function. The sizes of space debris can also vary from the size of a marble to a much greater size. Thus, besides the currently observed space debris, there are actually also another millions of space debris which are so tiny that we cannot keep track of them. However, even though some space debris is extremely small, their potential power can never be underestimated. Travelling at such a high speed, they can cause serious damages to any spacecraft. According to the past journals of various space shuttles, their windows have been continuously damaged and forced to be replaced simply due to the collision from unknown space debris. Just as what Nicholas Johnson, a NASA chief scientist for orbital debris, once suggests, the space debris which cannot be tracked creates the largest risk to space missions.

Due to the large number of space exploration projects, a large belt of debris has formed that can be hazardous to other operational spacecraft. As engineers, we have an ethical responsibility to prevent pollution of Earth’s atmosphere. We have learned a hard lesson on the value of environment from right here on Earth. Trends show that the debris belt circling the Earth will only get bigger, and become more hazardous to spacecraft.