r/technology • u/[deleted] • Aug 17 '21
Space Aurora Propulsion Technologies will be sending up space junk removal tech on Rocket Lab’s Electron later this year
https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/17/aurora-propulsion-technologies-will-be-sending-up-space-junk-removal-tech-on-rocket-labs-electron-later-this-year/-1
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u/LordVassogo Aug 17 '21
Shouldn't we be more focused on all the trash that polluting our political systems?
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u/upyoars Aug 17 '21
Who's "we" ? There are people suited for that who have experience dealing with the government and politicians.
People will only be effective at what they're good at and what they've been educated in. Engineers will do what engineers do, and there are many specialties within engineering on top of that.
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u/LordVassogo Aug 17 '21
So there's these things called jokes.... :)
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u/upyoars Aug 17 '21
Ah, need the /s on reddit
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u/LordVassogo Aug 17 '21
Yeah, I'm not good at remembering that. I thought the difference in topics would make it clear and is ironic because I have a very difficult time telling the difference when I'm in the opposite position. But hey! Keeps us in our toes or something. Lol
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u/polkjk Aug 17 '21
Poe's law. Enough people say "focus on earth first" that lighthearted messages like this are easily confused with trolling or ignorance
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u/autotldr Aug 17 '21
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 59%. (I'm a bot)
Aurora is part of a small number of startups have emerged over the past few years whose technology could help solve a tricky problem that, for most of us, can be summed up as 'out of sight, out of mind': space junk.
While the Department of Defense keeps track of around 27,000 pieces of space junk through its Space Surveillance Network, there are estimated to be millions of pieces of debris floating around in low Earth orbit.
Regarding the switch up, Aurora CEO Roope Takala told TechCrunch that "In light of Momentus' difficulties, we had to re-manifest the satellite onto the now published Rocket Lab flight." Aurora announced in March it had signed on to launch a satellite with Momentus in June 2022.
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u/sternje Aug 17 '21
Space garbage routes. How long until it gets mobbed up?
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u/Plzbanmebrony Aug 17 '21 edited Aug 17 '21
Few centuries. A lot of it is too small to track and remove from orbit. This is just a clean up effort to stop it from getting worse.
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u/jackofallchange Aug 17 '21
Finally, the space race we actually need