Aeolus' demise may pave the way for similar efforts in the future. This spacecraft, not designed for such maneuvers, performed admirably. The continual innovation in space safety behavior has been impressive.
. He added that this spacecraft was not designed to do these maneuvers, yet performed them admirably."Much of the positive space safety behavior over the last few years has been by systems not designed to perform that way. The continual innovation by many has been impressive," McKnight told Inside Outer Space.
Tech. Sgt. Ronald Dunn, 729th Airlift Squadron loadmaster, guides a Mongolian driver in August 2011. Dunn was part of a crew from March Air Reserve Base, Calif., who were assigned to a mission to retrieve space debris that fell to Earth. The parts were identified as expended rocket parts from an Air Force rocket launched into space nearly a decade prior.
"It’s good that agencies are now starting to consider the environmental aspects of these technologies and how previous standard approaches are not sustainable," Shutler said. Those prior strategies include shifting satellites to a graveyard orbit or just leaving the satellite in its original"But equally, de-orbiting for burn-up in the atmosphere and with roughly 20% of the satellite landing in the ocean is not sustainable or environmentally good," Shutler said.
Also needed is a reduction in the quantity of aluminum within those satellites,"and showing greater consideration for the atmosphere, the ocean and whole of, instead of just protecting the land, whilst simultaneously considering everywhere else as being acceptable for littering."
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