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

[Jerry Isdale]

That looks pretty interesting - akin to the laser rangefinder the USAF has here on Maui.

Jerry Isdale
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On Oct 3, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Paul Szymkowiak wrote:

> 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:
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>    http://rsaa.anu.edu.au/technology/instrumentation-projects/adaptive-optics-sky-demonstrator
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> General press release for the facility is here:
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>    http://rsaa.anu.edu.au/research/highlights/bigger-better-aitc-were-keeping-australia-space-ready
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> 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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