It is essential to monitor the human-made space junk in orbit, as some of them pose a risk to the population if they fall ...
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Scientists discover earthquake sensors can follow space debris using sonic booms signals
A growing space debris problem leads scientists to use seismic sensors to follow sonic booms from uncontrolled reentries ...
A large cloud of tiny fragments revolves around Earth following satellite explosions, rocket stage malfunctions, and anti-satellite missile testing. These fragments—some as small as grains of ...
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Scientists turn earthquake sensors into powerful trackers of deadly space junk
As the number of satellites in orbit explodes, the amount of hardware eventually plunging back through the atmosphere is ...
As the threat of falling spacecraft increases, using earthquake sensors to detect the effects of their sonic booms could ...
A computer generated image of objects in Earth orbit that are currently being tracked. Approximately 95% of the objects in this illustration are orbital debris, i.e., not functional satellites. The ...
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