About this episode
The episode discusses research on tracking space junk and its environmental implications.
According to NASA an average of one catalogued piece of space junk per day has come down to Earth over the past 50 years. Research is described which can track space junk in the atmosphere and provide the starting location and altitude for tracking clouds of environmentally problematic toxic chemical and/or nuclear contaminants released by the disintegration of reentering spacecraft.
People in this episode
Host: Albert D. Grauer
Topics covered
- space junk
- tracking
- environmental contaminants
- NASA
- spacecraft disintegration
Keywords
- space junk
- NASA
- tracking
- toxic chemicals
- nuclear contaminants
- spacecraft
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: NASA
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