BBCNEWS Newsnight June 4, 2024 21:56:00
Given the number of human activities that depend on satellites, it�*s a little unnerving how little effort has been made to tackle the problem of spacejunk orbiting our planet. well, tonight that�*s changed. given the number the european space agency has for the first time this evening guided a retired weather satellite, the aeolus, on a journey — resembling something like this — in an asssisted re—entry back into the atmosphere, in order to burn it up rather than littering the cosmic neighbourhood. that feat was accomplished by the agency�*s operations team, jubilant earlier this ...
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