Space Pollution
However as pollution is generally considered to indicate a despoiling of the natural environment space pollution here refers to only man made orbital debris.
Space pollution. Committee on space. At least a couple of times every year the international space station manoeuvres to avoid a potentially catastrophic collision with space junk. Space junk is a huge problem and it s only getting bigger hundreds of thousands of man made objects are zipping around our planet from dead satellites to errant nuts and bolts putting our working.
Space pollution in the most general sense the term space pollution includes both the natural micrometeoroid and man made orbital debris components of the space environment. The problem of space pollution. Remediation takes two courses.
Debris in space is called space junk or orbital debris because they orbit the earth. While estimations vary there are about 4 000 active. The effects of debris on other spacecraft range from surface abrasion due to repeated.
It is actually littered with waste some of which were caused by human activity. Nasa scientist donald kessler warned in a paper written in 1978 that every collision of man made objects in space generates more shrapnel and debris as pieces fly apart on impact. If you think space is an immaculate space you re wrong.
Protection seeks to shield spacecraft. Space debris also known as space junk space pollution space waste space trash or space garbage is a term for defunct human made objects in space principally in earth orbit which no longer serve a useful function. Space pollution environmental and health impacts.
The effect is cumulative as new debris collides with other objects it creates even more debris.