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Space junk map tracks 200 ‘ticking time bombs’ - BBC World Service
Thousands of human-made objects orbit earth and the majority of them no longer work. There’s a risk this space debris could collide with functioning satellites, which provide vital services like GPS and weather warnings.
To track and predict its behaviour, Prof Moriba Jah and his colleagues built AstriaGraph – a near real-time map of where each object is located in space. He explains that the system is monitoring around 200 ‘super-spreaders’ – large rocket bodies that have the potential to break into thousands of pieces.
ASTRIAGraph: Monitoring Global Traffic in Space!" by Moriba Jah - University of Texas at Austin
How LeoLabs Is Using New Tech to Target Space Junk
https://platform-cdn.leolabs.space/visualization
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