Study says climate change will even make Earth’s orbit a mess
Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN3d
Climate Change Might Increase Satellite Collisions, Limiting How Many Can Safely Orbit Earth, Study Finds
Greenhouse gas emissions could reduce drag in the upper atmosphere, leaving more space debris in orbit and making satellites ...
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Earth’s orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are making the problem worse
This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Earth’s orbit is filling up with junk. Greenhouse gases are ...
The Aviationist3h
General Atomics Tested Gray Eagle ER UAS Using Proliferated Low Earth Orbit Satellites
GA-ASI says that Gray Eagle is the only U.S. Army UAS capable of leveraging Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) and Low Earth ...
2 Trillion Pulses Unleashed: NASA’s Space Laser Reveals Earth’s Shifting Ice
NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has ...
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Elon Musk Claims SpaceX Will Launch 90% of Earth's Rockets to Orbit This Year: 'This Is Necessary to Make Mars a Self-Sustaining Civilization'
Elon Musk's space technology company will be launching more rockets into orbit than NASA and the rest of the world in 2025.
The Daily Galaxy on MSN13h
SpaceX Crew Dragon Successfully Launches to ISS, Paving the Way for Astronauts’ Return to Earth
After an initial postponement, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon successfully launched on March 14, 2025, carrying a team of four ...
Science Daily6d
Climate change will reduce the number of satellites that can safely orbit in space
The team carried out simulations of how carbon emissions affect the upper atmosphere and orbital dynamics, in order to estimate the "satellite carrying capacity" of low-Earth orbit. These ...
Orlando Sentinel5d
Study says climate change will even make Earth’s orbit a mess
Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. MIT researchers calculated that as global ...
The Texas Observer3d
Earth Orbit Is Filling Up with Junk. Greenhouse Gases Worsen the Problem.
The problem is that atmospheric density is the only thing that naturally pulls space junk out of orbit. Earth’s atmosphere doesn’t suddenly give way to the vacuum of space, but gets ...