Climate Change & Space: Preventing the Exploitation of the Thermosphere
“More satellites have been launched in the last five years than in the preceding 60 years combined. One of key things we’re trying to understand is whether the path we’re on today is sustainable.” - William Parker. Greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways that, over time, will reduce the number of satellites that can sustainably operate there, according to…
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Climate Change & Space: Preventing the Exploitation of the Thermosphere
“More satellites have been launched in the last five years than in the preceding 60 years combined. One of key things we’re trying to understand is whether the path we’re on today is sustainable.” …The Orkney News
Nils Skirnir
in reply to Fiona Grahame Orkney News Ltd • • •HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
in reply to Fiona Grahame Orkney News Ltd • • •#ClimateChange #SpacePollution #Starlink #Musk #ClimateCrisis #GHG
It is very important to ask three questions:
1.) How do spaceship and satellite launches impact our environment, in particular the #thermosphere?
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2.) Who is the main culprit of this unsustainable development in orbit? (see below)
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(Translation: see #AltText)
3.) How do we combat it?
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