There are thousands of pieces of space junk circling the Earth at more than 17,000 miles per hour, threatening operational satellites and even people in orbit.
circling the Earth at more than 17,000 miles per hour, threatening operational satellites and even people in orbit.I think that the large swaths of space becoming unusable is something that could very well happen in the next few years," Moriba Jah, the co-founder of Privateer Space, tells Axios.at the end of last month detailing the steps the Biden administration hopes to take in order to track, remediate and mitigate debris in orbit, building on work started by previous administrations.
The document also potentially reopens debate on just how long debris — like rocket bodies — can be allowed to stay in orbit. Current, internationally adopted guidelines that spent satellites and rocket bodies should deorbit after 25 years have been cited as too lax in recent years.
"Space debris is an international problem, but the U.S. has an opportunity to lead," Ezinne Uzo-Okoro, assistant director for space policy at the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, tells Axios.Unlike Europe and Japan, the U.S. doesn't yet have its own cleanup mission on the books, something that the implementation plan doesn't directly put into the pipeline.
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