Space junk in Earth orbit and on the Moon will increase with future missions − but nobody's in charge of cleaning it up

Jumuta, 10 months ago

LEO junk is fine because the junk will quickly undergo orbital decay

high orbits should be monitored more closely though

wahming, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Fedi is weirdly more downvote happy than reddit used to be. You made a simple factual statement, either true or false. Nobody’s pointing out any mistakes, just downvotes.

Jumuta, 10 months ago

eh who cares

Ubermeisters, 10 months ago

Maybe instead of dumping all this money into space force for no other reason we should utilize it to this extent

Ryan213, 10 months ago

Fine, I’ll do it. I’ll need 6 Trillion dollars with no oversight. Just trust me.

zepheriths, 10 months ago

Eventually they will be unavailable to do space missions anymore.

Hazdaz, 10 months ago

As with most things, the US will do it.

neptune, 10 months ago

We’re also putting up like 90% of the satellites and consuming a huge fraction of the data being transmitted so

uriel238, 10 months ago

Actually a division of STRATCOM is responsible for space debris and making sure the US nuclear arsenal can get through to their targets without collision. While I don’t believe they’ve engaged in cleaning operations, theyve definitely informed policies about reducing the rate of debris accumulation.

Now that Space Force is a thing, sweeping debris is a problem that would be within its mission parameters. I can’t say if anything is actually happening, though.