Satellite traffic crowding low earth orbit, UN panel pushes for data sharing pact
Published On : 2024-12-03T04:39:48+0530 [ IST ] |
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New Delhi: Space experts have cautioned against the exponential rise in satellite launches in the low earth orbit (LEO) and the resultant increase in space junk that will make the orbit unusable in coming years.
A United Nations panel on space traffic coordination in late October said urgent action is necessary and called for a comprehensive shared database of orbital objects as well as an international framework to track and manage them.
More than 14,000 satellites, including some 3,500 inactive satellites, surround the globe in LEO. Alongside those are about 120 million pieces of debris from launches, collisions and wear-and-tear of which only a few thousand are large enough to track
With so many objects being launched into space we have to do everything we can to ensure space safety and that means facilitating the sharing of information between operators, be they public or private, in order to avoid collisions.
Most orbital debris comprises human-generated objects such as pieces of spacecraft, tiny flecks of paint from a spacecraft, parts of rockets, satellites that are no longer working or explosions of objects in orbit flying around in space at high speeds according to Nasa. Due to the rate of speed and volume of
Unfortunately there are no international space laws to clean up debris in LEO. It is expensive to remove space debris from LEO because the problem of space junk is huge — there are close to 6,000 tonne of materials in the orbit
The LEO must remain safe to prevent costly disruption to the technology behind global communication, navigation and scientific exploration Aarti Holla-Maini said. Yet there is no centralised system that all space-faring nations can leverage and even persuading them to use such a system
Source : Reporters From Sunrise Chronicles
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New Delhi: Space experts have cautioned against the exponential rise in satellite launches in the low earth orbit (LEO) and the resultant increase in space junk that will make the orbit unusable in
