Scientists have found a way to track when and where space junk crashes on earth. FOX 13's Dave Osterberg reports.
Now, scientists have devised a clever new way to predict where the pieces may land.
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Scientists turn earthquake sensors into powerful trackers of deadly space junk
As the number of satellites in orbit explodes, the amount of hardware eventually plunging back through the atmosphere is ...
Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments ...
Old satellites and other space junk fall toward Earth every day, and the shock waves they create could be used to track their ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As more and more space junk comes crashing down, a new study shows how earthquake monitors can ...
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Earthquake Sensors Have Found A Second Job: Space Junk Detectors
In A Nutshell Thousands of existing seismic stations worldwide can now help locate falling satellites before hazardous ...
Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to ...
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New way of accurately tracking potentially deadly space junk as it falls to Earth
A way of accurately tracking potentially deadly space junk as it falls to Earth has been devised. Seismometers usually used ...
Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...
Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui and Chen Dong will extend their stay aboard the Tiangong space station after their capsule was hit by ...
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