IN ORBIT IS DANGEROUS AND huge dump be reclaimed
Bari A hunt for waste space
Sgobba awarded by NASA and ESA
• BARI - Space? It is becoming a huge garbage dump. In orbit, according to scientists, there are at least 300 thousand more than an inch thick debris. Wrecks, spare engines, old tanks, bolts, sheet metal, radioactive fuel and even the camera lost by astronauts in the Gemini 10 in 1966.
And this "Naples in the absence of gravity, increases year after year. In February, the Americans destroyed a spy satellite (U.S. 193) in damage, striking him with a missile launched from a ship. And in space you are facing also two superpowers, China and India.
To get an idea of \u200b\u200bthe risks faced by spacecraft and astronauts, just look at these examples. If a fragment of a few millimeters hit a critical area of \u200b\u200bthe Shuttle, you could make another tragedy similar to the shuttle Columbia in 2003. The space station in orbit is currently protected by collisions with foreign objects up to an inch and possible collision with a fragment of one kilogram, equivalent to that of a truck that crashed against a car at 190 miles per hour.
to work on space security, ESA, the agency asked a Bari, Tommaso Sgobba, president dell'Iaass, the international association which studies remedies and interventions. Sgobba since 1989 in Holland, was the point of reference, inter alia, all major European manned missions of the Shuttle and Mir. For its activity the scientist Bari has also received two prestigious awards from NASA and ESA, a kind of "Oscar" of the sector. For
Sgobba the problem is the lack of international rules governing the use of space: "The incompatibilities in spacecraft from different countries are enormous. I think the doors, which have different docking mode, the electric plugs are not compatible, if a Chinese astronaut was in trouble and "knocked" at the Space Station, there would be serious problems for help. "
Hence the importance of monitoring the concentration of space debris: "The situation could become uncontrollable in a not too distant future, especially for human spaceflight. Today we have enough knowledge to clean up the space of orbits available, through procedures for controlled reentry. It is high time to act. "
Gaetano Champion
"La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno" - 30/10/2008
Bari A hunt for waste space
Sgobba awarded by NASA and ESA
• BARI - Space? It is becoming a huge garbage dump. In orbit, according to scientists, there are at least 300 thousand more than an inch thick debris. Wrecks, spare engines, old tanks, bolts, sheet metal, radioactive fuel and even the camera lost by astronauts in the Gemini 10 in 1966.
And this "Naples in the absence of gravity, increases year after year. In February, the Americans destroyed a spy satellite (U.S. 193) in damage, striking him with a missile launched from a ship. And in space you are facing also two superpowers, China and India.
To get an idea of \u200b\u200bthe risks faced by spacecraft and astronauts, just look at these examples. If a fragment of a few millimeters hit a critical area of \u200b\u200bthe Shuttle, you could make another tragedy similar to the shuttle Columbia in 2003. The space station in orbit is currently protected by collisions with foreign objects up to an inch and possible collision with a fragment of one kilogram, equivalent to that of a truck that crashed against a car at 190 miles per hour.
to work on space security, ESA, the agency asked a Bari, Tommaso Sgobba, president dell'Iaass, the international association which studies remedies and interventions. Sgobba since 1989 in Holland, was the point of reference, inter alia, all major European manned missions of the Shuttle and Mir. For its activity the scientist Bari has also received two prestigious awards from NASA and ESA, a kind of "Oscar" of the sector. For
Sgobba the problem is the lack of international rules governing the use of space: "The incompatibilities in spacecraft from different countries are enormous. I think the doors, which have different docking mode, the electric plugs are not compatible, if a Chinese astronaut was in trouble and "knocked" at the Space Station, there would be serious problems for help. "
Hence the importance of monitoring the concentration of space debris: "The situation could become uncontrollable in a not too distant future, especially for human spaceflight. Today we have enough knowledge to clean up the space of orbits available, through procedures for controlled reentry. It is high time to act. "
Gaetano Champion
"La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno" - 30/10/2008
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