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In episode 119 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik speak with Dr. John Crassidis of the University at Buffalo about orbital debris and its dangers.
If you’ve seen the movie “Gravity,” you have some idea of the dangers of orbital debris—and the risk is real. More than 25,000 objects larger than 4 inches in diameter are monitored by the U.S. Space Force, and millions more are smaller or unmonitored—everything from abandoned satellites to unserviceable rocket stages to shrapnel and even bits of frozen rocket fuel. And even an object the size and mass of a paint chip, traveling at orbital speeds, can shatter a spacecraft’s window.
Be careful down there, it’s going to be hot!
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About This Week in Space
This Week in Space is all about the new space age. Every Friday, we take a deep dive into a fascinating topic. What’s happening with the new race to the moon and other planets? When will SpaceX actually send people to Mars?
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Rod Pyle is an author, journalist, television producer and editor of Ad Astra magazine. He has written 18 books on space history, exploration and development, including Space 2.0, Innovation the NASA way, Interplanetary Robots, Plan of a Battlestar, Amazing Stories from the Space Age, First on the MoonAnd Destination Mars
In a previous life, Rod produced numerous documentaries and short films for The History Channel, Discovery Communications and Disney. He also worked on the visual effects for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the Battlestar Galactica reboot, as well as various science fiction television series pilots. His most recent television credit was with the NatGeo documentary about Tom Wolfe’s iconic book The right equipment.
Responsible for Space.com’s editorial vision, Tariq Malik has been Space.com’s editor-in-chief since 2019 and has covered space and science news for 18 years. He joined the Space.com team in 2001, first as an intern and then shortly thereafter as a full-time reporter covering human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the night sky. He became Space.com’s editor-in-chief in 2009. As an anchor, he has covered space stories on CNN, Fox News, NPR and others.
Tariq is an Eagle Scout (yes, he earned the Space Exploration Merit Badge), a veteran of Space Camp (4 times as a kid, once as an adult), and has taken the ultimate “vomit comet” ride while reporting on zero-gravity wildfires. Before joining Space.com, he was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, covering urban and education issues. He holds journalism degrees from the University of Southern California and New York University.
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