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The magnets not only guided the ball’s direction, but could also rotate it. The station orbits the Earth about every 90 minutes at a speed of more than 17,000 miles per hour. In an experiment outlined in their new paper in Nature, the team explains how it was able to move a copper ball through water on a raft by spinning magnets so fast that it created an electrical current. Viewing Earth from the Space Station In this June 2021 image, our Suns glint beams off the Indian Ocean as the International Space Station orbited about 270 miles above the Earth near western Australia. Their team of robotics engineers has developed a magnetic field they claim can move objects in space, even nonmagnetic ones. They argue their plan could make outer space less dangerous. (The European Space Agency is apparently spending $102 million to retrieve one 247-pound piece of space trash.) The good news-doubly good if metal trash rings sound cool-is that the University of Utah researchers who think we’ll be giving Earth rings are making this prediction because they say they’ve also found the way to create them. (They ultimately just sheltered in place.) The station also had to maneuver three times in 2020 to avoid debris.Īttempts to remove space pollution are very much still works in progress.
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Inhabitants of Earth aren’t really even aware of what’s going on up there: For instance, Russia just blew up a massive broken 4,850-pound satellite last week, creating a cloud of fragments so large that the International Space Station astronauts nearly had to evacuate. According to the European Space Agency, we currently have 170 million pieces of space debris encircling the planet, some at speeds of up to 18,000 miles per hour. More satellites mean more defunct satellites, which mean more satellite pieces. With creation tools, you can draw on the map, add your photos and videos, customize your view, and share and collaborate with others. Click on the image to explore it in its full. Ahead of his launch, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Cape Canaveral, USA, in a region known as the Space Coast. The result is that space pollution keeps growing. On 22 April 2021, on Earth Day, Thomas Pesquet is planned to return to the International Space Station for his second mission, Alpha. But our low-Earth-orbit space race is only beginning: Jeff Bezos wants to send 3,200 more satellites into orbit, while Elon Musk’s Starlink has already put 2,000 in orbit and has plans to launch another 40,000 in the coming decades-15 times the number currently in the sky. Right now, the night sky doesn’t look polluted. Even wilder, this is because the researchers say we’ll make them intentionally to clear a path in the sky.