Just 129 objects were launched into space in 2011. Last year, that figure was over 1,200.
WHEN AMATEUR IRISH astronomer John Flannery first took an interest in the hobby as a child, space was a much cleaner place than it is in 2021.
“It certainly is a huge concern,” says Dublin-based Flannery, a member of the Irish Astronomical Society. During their observations, a commercial Starlink satellite — part of an internet communications network developed by Tesla chief executive Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX — appeared in the sky. “He discovered an exploding star, essentially a nova that repeats roughly every 25 to 40 years,” Flannery says.
In 2011, the Obama administration killed NASA’s space shuttle programme and ‘Project Constellation’, aimed at returning astronauts to the Moon. SpaceX’s Starlink network alone could potentially comprise nearly 30,000 satellites once it’s fully operational, he explains. All those dead objects floating around up there creates the potential for collisions. Collisions mean debris and debris in space — where even a fleck of paint can cause major damage to manned vehicles — presents significant dangers to astronauts and equipment.“With ESA, we are not doing this commercial business,” he says.
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