Space is becoming an ‘unsustainable environment in the long term,’ ESA says

Space.com, Other, 26/07/2024, Jackson Ryan
Space, just beyond the reach of Earth’s atmosphere, is kind of like a teenager’s bedroom: Even when you try to clean it, it somehow keeps getting messier. […] “The same thing that caused all those beautiful auroras in recent months will make the upper atmosphere swell and the resulting drag to bring LEO objects down in altitude much faster than normal,” Mars Buttfield-Addison, a PhD researcher at the University of Tasmania and Australia’s CSIRO working on ways to track satellites and space junk, told Space.com.

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