Tag: Debris
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Space Junk Blues: How Atomic-6 Armor Turns Cosmic Catastrophes into Yawns
Picture this: You’re an astronaut, floating serenely in low Earth orbit, sipping your freeze-dried coffee and pondering the meaning of life among the stars. Suddenly—wham!—a rogue fleck of 1960s satellite paint, hurtling at 17,000 miles per hour, decides your helmet makes a fine target. Or maybe it’s your unmanned probe, dutifully beaming selfies of Mars…
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The Kessler Effect: When Space Becomes a Cosmic Junkyard
A Space-Age Headache Picture this: you’re trying to launch a satellite to beam high-speed internet to a remote village, but the orbit is so cluttered with junk—old satellites, rocket bits, even a stray astronaut’s wrench—that your shiny new spacecraft gets smashed to bits. Welcome to the Kessler Effect, a scenario where space becomes a chaotic…