Revisiting space debris: The rubbish you didn’t see coming

Why area air pollution has specialists apprehensive

This computer-generated picture launched by the European Area Company (ESA) on April 15, 2008 exhibits trackable objects in orbit round Earth [ESA/AFP]

In November, Russia joined the small membership of countries which have performed anti-satellite missile exams. That take a look at created an enormous cloud of area particles. Ever since, the problem of garbage in area has been inching its method into the headlines, and determining what to do about it's surprisingly political.

On this episode:

• Moriba Jah (@moribajah), Affiliate Professor, College of Texas at Austin
• Alice Gorman (@drspacejunk), Affiliate Professor, Flinders College

Episode credit:

This episode was up to date by Negin Owliaei. The interviews for this episode had been produced by Al Jazeera’s Begin Right here workforce. The unique manufacturing workforce was Negin Owliaei, Priyanka Tilve, Ruby Zaman, Alexandra Locke, Ney Alvarez, Amy Walters, Tom Fenton, Stacey Samuel, and Malika Bilal. Alex Roldan is our sound designer. Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.

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