Space debris

You want to do that around the orbit of a planet.

You don't want to do that because you can't go get that orbital debris.

So in general, like orbital debris is an issue.

It's a, you know, we bring our satellites back so they don't either burn up in the atmosphere or stay in space.

But how big of an issue

Like, what are your fears about, like, the privatization of space?

Yeah, yeah, so it's, the space debris is a whole separate issue.

There's not only all the satellites.

As I said earlier, Elon is now rising through his 12,000th satellite.

The material already circling the planet can keep colliding and fragmenting without a single new launch, which makes debris mitigation a growing concern, not just for spacecraft operators, but also for the insurers, regulators, and satellite-dependent companies who did not put anything in orbit themselves.

The broader environmental case for treating orbital debris as a genuine sustainability issue has been building for several years.

This report gives that case a harder number to point to.

The question shifting into focus is no longer only how to avoid creating more debris.

So we'll be discussing this and the, well, specifics and its global impact, let's say.

Finally, we will be tackling the growing challenge of space junk, an ongoing topic that never ends.

It's a significant threat, but a crazy idea is now proving to be a brilliant solution.

Scientists are monitoring this orbital debris using everyday radio telescopes, and this innovative approach could revolutionize how we track and manage space junk, making space safer for everyone.

We'll reveal how this works.

So yeah, we've got so many topics to discuss from revolutionary telescopes and flipped galaxies to lunar partnerships and amazing space cleanup.

Now let's take a break and enjoy some cosmic music.

When we come back, we'll be diving into our final topic about something really clever that we always keep talking about.

Yeah.

I mean, he writes a ton of songs about planets and space exploration and ties it into love affairs and all that shit.

Yeah, and, uh, broadly anti-authoritarian, generic messaging.

Yes.

... by the time it drops.

But like, you gotta, you gotta build up interest.

There's only 10 songs on the record, so they literally released half of it before the release date, and then they actually made a f- a sixth song a single the same day that they put the album out.

So they did five singles, released the album on June 22nd, uh, to June 26th of this year, and then also threw out the, the sixth single on the same day.

My answer is that we probably need new elements in the space legal landscape in order to tackle with those new realities.

And both mega constellations, active satellites, thousands of active satellites on low Earth orbit, and how to tackle also with space debris and space congestion.

So we have to invest new fields of space regulation and more specifically on environmental aspects.

Because

The upper stage gets into orbit, and now five times this upper stage has broken up suddenly after the deployment of its payload.

And when it breaks up, it produces a cloud of space junk that we have to deal with.

It's happened four previous times back between 22 and 24.

It looked like they had modified it to fix the problem, but another one launched this year just recently broke up again.

Creates space junk.

It indicates China's, you know, it wouldn't be hard to put a little extra fuel on these rockets and restart the engine and de-orbit it, you know, in a controlled manner.

That's what SpaceX does.