According to a study by the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada, wreck rockets old ones may fall Soil and hurt people all over the world in the next ten years. According to the data, the remains of rockets released into space orbit The probability of injuring a person in the next ten years is between 6% and 10%.
Thousands of objects are launched into space each year. satellites, but some of these missions are recovering from debris from orbiting rockets. If one of these pieces of debris is in a low enough orbit, it can re-enter the atmosphere, incinerating pieces that could hit people and cause fatal accidents in an area of 10 square meters.
That’s why UBC researchers suggest that governments around the world are creating collective measures to prevent rocket debris from falling to earth. They say the situation could improve if these ejected rocket fragments are routed for safe landing – for example, by using engines to redirect the debris to remote areas of the ocean.
“Is it permissible to view the loss of human life as a mere cost of doing business, or is it something we should try to protect as best we can? That’s the trick: we can protect ourselves against this risk,” said UBC political science professor Michael Byers.
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The research was published in the scientific journal Nature Astronomy, and the scientists say they used 30 years of data from a publicly available satellite catalog to understand the situation. So the information was used to generate the percentage decline over the next ten years.
The researchers also say that falls are more likely in the south of the planet, in areas like Jakarta (Indonesia), Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Lagos (Nigeria). In any case, several debris from space has already hit the Earth’s surface, like a 12-metre pipe from the Long March 5B rocket that hit Ivory Coast in 2020.
Currently, there are already technology projects for the removal of debris from space, but the action will need a lot of money to take place. Researchers will continue to study the effects of debris re-entering the atmosphere.
Source: Tec Mundo
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