SKTLs Space Newsletter: Galileo’s Green Light, ESA’s Obstacles, Black Holes Collide And A Whole Lot More
| The SKTLs family wants to keep you up to date and informed on the development of the space economy, space exploration and space related cryptos. In this newsletter subscribers will find recent news about space, including lots of interesting facts about our new frontier. |
 “Space commuters trying to navigate space debris in rush hour traffic!” Space News Galileo Satellites Get The Green Light Galileo satellites are scheduled to be launched on a Soyuz launcher from French Guiana in early December. ESA’s Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Collision Risk ESA’s Solar Orbiter is focused on dodging space debris as it passes earth. Black Holes Colliding Black holes have a gravity force so strong that light can’t escape, but what happens when they collide? |
Voyager Spacecraft’s Terrifying New Discovery In Space
The twin Voyager space probes first embarked about a month apart from each other on their historic interplanetary expedition in 1977. In 1989, only 5 days after the 12-year anniversary of its departure, Voyager 2 became the first—and, so far, the only—spacecraft to fly past the planet Neptune, which orbits at a frigid 2.7 billion miles from the Sun.
SPACE STARTUP NEWS
SPACE DEBRIS CLEANUP
Astroscale’s big raise. Tokyo-based startup Astroscale gets a boost in funding to develop tech for removing space debris in Earth’s orbit.
SPACE MONITORING SERVICES
Startups developing space traffic monitoring systems. SCOUT-Kayhan Space partnership payloads could serve as collision avoidance aids.
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The piece on the ESA Solar Orbiter was interesting because it used a relatively small collision resulting in a far greater scale damage outcome. however small it may have been, the point is clear: the potential for danger, accidents, and death in space is only going to grow because of us if we don’t keep the areas we explore clean, especially when it comes to space debris. In the example, a 5mm sized piece of debris caused a 40cm damage area. I could see something the size of a baseball creating a damage area the size of a sedan. And with our increased space explorative and travel endeavors, this will only grow into a bigger problem. ATM, we don’t have commercial flights in and out of the atmosphere…but one day we will. Imagine an entire ship full of passengers exploding because of some chunk of century old satellite which drifted in its path. We can avoid, or at least reduce the risk of this happening by acting NOW.
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