space trash bash

Space trash, a growing problem since the launch of the first satellite in 1957, poses a threat to Earth's atmosphere and the ozone layer. Over a hundred trillion pieces of trash are currently floating in space. The environment cleanup is challenging, with thousands of active and dead satellites and millions of pieces of space junk. The issue affects not only space exploration but also the potential for collision and the creation of even more debris. To address this, decommissioned satellites should be removed from space. The problem has implications for humans, animals, and the future of space travel. It is caused by governments and billionaires launching satellites. This issue relates to justice and the need for action. Fun facts include Elon Musk launching a car into space and the small number of working satellites. Cleaning up space trash is crucial for safer space travel, preserving satellites, and ensuring better exploration. We must act before space becomes as polluted as our oce Welcome to our podcast. This is co-host Cole Robbins and co-host Henry Collins. Back for another episode we'll be interviewing Chloe Obai. We'll be interviewing Chloe Obai and talk about space trash and Earth's atmosphere. This problem first started off on October 4th, 1957 when the first satellite was launched. The first satellite was the first of many and those satellites all turned to trash once they were decommissioned and it also creates a lot of trash launching them into space. It is still an ongoing issue with an estimate of over a hundred trillion pieces of trash floating in space in Earth's gravitational pull. Every year we put more and more trash into space and with plans to release more satellites into space that means a lot more trash. Oh, that is not good. Chloe, what human community is most affected by this issue? Everyone and the depletion of the ozone layer makes it more likely for people to get skin cancer. All right, that's not good. What is the status of the environmental cleanup? A natural history museum reads 2,000 active satellites in Earth's orbit, 3,000 dead satellites in Earth's orbit, 34,000 pieces of space junk larger than 10 centimeters, 128 million pieces of space junk larger than 1 millimeter, 1 in 10,000 risk of collision that will require debris avoidance maneuvers, 25 debris avoidance maneuvers by the ISS since 1999. Oh, that is very bad. Oh, who is affected by this issue? Trash does not currently pose a huge threat to us on Earth, but it does pose a huge threat to the ISS satellites, further exploration and other stuff like that, and even the proposed Keller syndrome. The Keller syndrome is where space junk collides and creates more and more space junk to a point where we can't even use the atmosphere. Although this is hard to imagine now, it could happen in the future posing a huge threat to humans. Oh, what can we do to stop this? We can start taking decommissioned satellites and stuff out of space when they are done instead of leaving them for trash in the atmosphere. Yeah, that would be hard to do. That would be pretty hard to do. Oh, this must be a serious issue. Yes, it is. It even affects animals from the UV radiation, which can be harmful. What specific communities do this issue affect? This issue does not affect a specific group of people, but it is caused by the government or billionaires who shoot satellites into space. Oh, that's the only cause why I selected you. Here's some fun facts, just to erase your memory on this issue. Elon Musk and his company SpaceX launched a car into space. This is fun fact. There are 4,700 satellites in space right now. They're a very small number. Only 1,800 actually work. This issue relates to justice because it is about how people are ignoring the trash in space and something needs to be done. And this same thing happened with the oceans. Now we know what we need to do. Just don't do it for different reasons like cost and other stuff, even though it could negatively affect us in the future. This affects everyone because it affects the ozone and space travel and lots of other things that we may need as humans in the future. It also poses a threat to us now because if it affects our ozone and our atmosphere, it can cause greater threat for everyone on Earth if the ozone gets spotty. It also affects satellites and space research, which could cause major problems if something like a really important satellite gets destroyed because of it. This may not be equal, but it does affect everyone. With all this space trash, I mean, the potential to create huge problems to try to clean it up. We can remove the junk from space to make space travel safer, less threat for destroying satellites, and more possibly, and more of a possibility of better space exploration. We don't want the space to end up like our oceans so we should work towards cleaning up space before it's too late. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. So join us every week and don't be late for Tales of Space Debris will narrate. Together we'll work towards a cleaner space of space trash to make the world a better place.