[SpaceProgram] We’ve Already Passed the Tipping Point for Orbital Debris - IEEE Spectrum

[Paul Szymkowiak]

I met with Naomi Mathers from the Australian AITC last week to talk about
Space GAMBIT. One of the projects Naomi mentioned the AITC have running is
this:


http://rsaa.anu.edu.au/technology/instrumentation-projects/adaptive-optics-sky-demonstrator

General press release for the facility is here:


http://rsaa.anu.edu.au/research/highlights/bigger-better-aitc-were-keeping-australia-space-ready


Paul

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On 2 October 2012 03:23, Jerry Isdale <isdale at gmail.com> wrote:

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> http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/satellites/weve-already-passed-the-tipping-point-for-orbital-debris
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> Interesting article from IEEE - although we are not seeing the major
> fallout from this overpopulation yet, the effects will rise as time goes
> on.  Perhaps some of our (SpaceGAMBIT) relatively near term effort could be
> on addressing this problem.  We need to clean up our local area before we
> go off trashing the rest of the solar system, and galaxy!
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>  Jerry Isdale
> isdale at gmail.com
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