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SpaceWaves: Cleaning up the junk in lower orbit (with video)

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Dooner and The Dude learn how keeping orbital space clean is a growing business

Dave Fischer talks keeping lower orbit clean and debris free.

What goes up must come down, or so they say; but what happens to the stuff that gets sent into space, orbits the Earth and never comes back?

Dave Fischer, vice president of business development and advanced systems for Astroscale, tells Dooner and The Dude how he is working to give space a clean sweep. 

“In the next 10 years you could see tens of thousands...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/spacewaves-cleaning-up-the-junk-in-lower-orbit-with-video

SpaceWaves: The final supply chain frontier (with video)

Avoiding space debris represents one of the biggest “risks” to operating a supply chain in outer space, said Darren McKnight, a technical director for Centauri Corp.

More than 20,000 objects in Earth’s orbit are considered space debris, the majority being man-made objects, creating challenges for interstellar logistics and supply chain operations, McKnight said.

“It’s all about risk. Collision risk is important to minimize — we don’t want to run into things, we don’t want operational satellites...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/logistics-and-supply-chain-frontier

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