Creon Levit | Space Debris and The Kessler Syndrome: A Possible Future Trapped on Earth

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Published 2022-04-27

More than one hundred million pieces of human-made space debris currently orbit our planet, most moving at more than 10,000 mph. Every year their number increases, creating a progressively more dangerous environment for working spacecraft. In order to operate in space, we track most of this debris through a patchwork of private efforts and government defense networks. Creon will discuss the history of space debris, the way the debris is currently tracked, and how we might work to reduce it before we see a cascading effect of ballistic interactions that could render low orbit all but unusable.

Creon Levit spent over three decades at NASA, and is now the Director of R&D at Planet, a company that is imaging the earth everyday with one of the largest swarms of micro-satellites in the world.

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@rosiehawtrey 2 years ago

Cmdr : Damage report.... Nameless cute redshirt: 😳 You are kidding right?
@zapfanzapfan 2 years ago

You need better internet, maybe get Starlink 🙂 There were quite a few audio issues and freezes.
@BrunoWiebelt 2 years ago

20 min in nothing interesting is said ...sorry out
@lotfiamaggrabi8693 2 years ago

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