SPACE WEEK: Is Space Junk Cluttering Up The Final Frontier?
Sep 03, 2020•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
Since the dawn of Sputnik in 1957, space-faring nations have been filling Earth's orbit with satellites. Think GPS, weather forecasting, telecommunications satellites. And as those have increased, so, too, has space junk. On today's show, we talk about the first mission to clean up space junk and the problem debris poses to sustainability in space. (Encore episode.)
