SPACE JUNK

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ARES | Orbital Debris Program Office
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Space debris - SLH T&L RESOURCE
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How big a deal is space junk and what should we do about it?
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Nasa's Perseverance rover makes 'surprise' discovery on Mars - NZ HERALD June 2022
an astronaut's view of the international space station and its surroundings in this article
All the stars in the sky, and a lot of other stuff too - NEWSROOM with RNZ PODCAST
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How can we clean up space? – AKLD UNI NEWS August 2021
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Rocket Lab to launch satellite aimed at reducing space junk – STUFF Aug 2021
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New Zealand and NASA partner up, allowing Aotearoa to grow space industry, minister says
New Zealand and NASA have partnered up under the multi-lateral Artemis Accords, in an effort to enhance space exploration efforts.
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Clean Space
Through the Clean Space initiative – another of the cross-cutting Technology themes presented to the 2012 Ministerial Council – ESA will devote increasing attention to the environmental impacts of its own activities, both on Earth and in space. Today, environmental legislation is one of the fastest-moving sectors of European and world law. Space industry is not excused from these laws; it must operate within the same jurisdiction as the rest of the planet.
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Keeping satellites in orbit
Dr Allan McInnes tells us about forces acting on satellites once they are in orbit, how to keep a satellite in orbit and the purpose of a graveyard orbit.
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Space junk – SLH T&L RESOURCE
If you think it is hard to keep your bedroom tidy, spare a thought for the space around our Earth. There are over 100 million particles of space junk out there, and humans are responsible for all of it!
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Hawke's Bay, dumping ground for space junk
Hawke's Bay in the firing line for NASA space junk - NZ HERALD ARTICLE Aug 2018. While most people are fascinated with surreal and often mysterious flying objects darting across the night sky, even more fascinating objects can fall out of it. Napier Planetarium curator Gary Sparks says he receives about four calls a year about strange flying objects, which often turn out to be Chinese lanterns, aeroplanes that don't appear to be moving but actually are, or oddly shaped drones.
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Chinese space rocket could land near NZ
There's a large rocket falling from the sky. But don't panic, it will probably fall at sea. The Chinese Long March 5B rocket has dropped into low orbit and will eventually land on earth. Astronomer, astrobiologist, former NASA scientist and author Duncan Steele is currently living and working in Nelson and he joins Jesse to discuss what on earth, or around it, is going on.
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Chinese rocket’s chaotic fall to Earth highlights problem of space junk