SPACE WEEK: Is Space Junk Cluttering Up The Final Frontier?

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🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

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.)

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0:00.0	Maddie's to fire here at Emily quank. We are rounding the corner on space week and preparing a new episode for you tomorrow
0:08.3	All about the end of the universe
0:11.6	You know something light and cheerful for the end of the summer 2020
0:16.1	But before we go a big thank you to all of you for listening to shortwave
0:20.4	Thank you for your emails your reviews your questions such good questions y'all which inspire our episodes all the time
0:28.9	Like this one from earlier this year on space junk. Oh and real quick if you haven't subscribed to or followed shortwave yet
0:35.9	Go ahead the time is now earthlings. We will not wait for you ship is leaving
0:47.2	Yeah, that's right onto the show
0:50.3	You're listening to shortwave
0:53.1	From NPR
0:55.7	Hey everybody Maddie's to fire here with shortwave reporter Emily quank hey you so today
1:01.2	We have a listener question episode. Hey
1:04.9	This one is from Rachel Weiss. Hey, they're shortwave. This is Rachel from Jacksonville, Florida
1:10.3	And I was curious about space junk
1:12.8	How much of a problem is it if at all and where is all this junk anyways?
1:17.5	space
1:19.1	Oh boy
1:20.5	The final frontier Maddie is not a pristine environment since the dawn of sputnik
1:26.1	We've been filling it with satellites
1:28.3	Man-made objects placed in orbit to collect data and send signals for military purposes research communication
1:34.6	Navigation are from GPS. That's right. We are a satellite dependent world
1:39.1	I want to introduce you to Moriba John
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