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PREVIEW: LUNAR ORBIT: Colleague Bob Zimmerman comments on a traffic jam forming in lunar orbit & what must be done. More later.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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PREVIEW: LUNAR ORBIT: Colleague Bob Zimmerman comments on a traffic jam forming in lunar orbit & what must be done. More later.

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0:00.0

Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

0:10.0

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

0:15.0

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

0:19.0

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

0:26.0

Piento Ferries, there is another way.

0:31.0

This is John Bachelor, speaking with my good colleague Bob Zimmerman, I learned that the Koreans

0:36.7

who have a lunar orbiter are worrying about collisions in lunar orbit.

0:43.0

Other countries India is mentioned

0:46.0

have lunar orbits that are similar to the Korean satellite

0:50.0

and there's something like a traffic jam.

0:53.0

This is early days in lunar orbit.

0:55.0

We can imagine where this is going.

0:58.0

Right now, the regulators on Earth are trying to imagine

1:01.0

who is in charge of low-Earth orbit, who's responsible for space junk,

1:06.8

what to do about space tugs and interference and theft.

1:11.9

Now we have the same problem ahead of us in lunar orbit. Bob Zimmerman,

1:17.0

Lunar Orbit, traffic jam, reminds me of how I was told that Norway is so rich,

1:22.4

downtown Norway is a Tesla traffic jam. Well, these

1:26.8

are the Tesla's of the moon. More of this later tonight. Thank you.

1:31.6

South Korea has an orbiter in lunar orbit and

1:35.0

they're at a conference that one of their officials from that particular mission

1:39.3

the Denari mission said that while in lunar orbit they have had numerous dozens of

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