2022: A record year for new space objects 🛰️ #shorts
2409 new objects were launched into space in 2022, that’s more than ever before.
Last year though, also saw a record number of satellites reenter Earth’s atmosphere.
The rising number of reentries is not necessarily a bad thing. Disposing of satellites efficiently is one of the most important things for keeping low-Earth orbits safe.
However, most objects reenter in an uncontrolled manner: they are switched off at the end of their mission and left to fall and burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.
There is good news though. Advancing technology has seen a recent increase in “controlled reentries” for rocket bodies. A controlled reentry allows operators to remove their hardware from protected regions more quickly and with greater control over where, when and how it reenters – and even lands – at the cost of allocating some fuel to do so.
By the way, just because an older satellite wasn’t designed to be controlled during its descent doesn’t mean it’s impossible to do so. In July 2023, our teams guided the Aeolus satellite to burn up over uninhabited regions in the Atlantic and Antarctica, even though the satellite was designed in the late 1990s with no intention to control it in this way.
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I know this is ESA and about space and the space agency and I love the shorts and videos you put out. However do you (the host) have an Instagram? Your eyes are so hypnotic. <3
We need to keep everything under control ❤
Hopefully planetary defense works 🙏
Good topic and presentation. This is what I subscribed for
Spaceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Burn in Antarctica and spoil the only region free of human habitation 🙂 smart indeed… That burning causes damage to the glaciers and then the same big brains will come out crying about the rise in sea level and muster their brain on what's causing it
How many of this objects were Starlink satelites ? 70%? 80%?
After months of resisting, I finally gave in and clicked on one of those shorts to check her eyes out.
The true complication is those who would intentionally refuse to use the knowledge we have to control reentry to shave off a few dollars from their build. And how the rest of Humanity can convince them otherwise.
Really need to get that space debris under control before it becomes too big of a problem for future missions.