GODMOTHER ordered the astronauts from International Space Station release a load of junk space of 2.9 tons, the largest in history.
The orbiting laboratory dropped a large battery of used batteries on Thursday morning, March 11, he said. Gizmodo the spokesman of GODMOTHER Leah Cheshier.
Expect that junk space return to ground in two or four years and burns “without causing damage to the atmosphere”, but not everyone is convinced that is the case. Likewise, the US Air Force Space Command will be tasked with tracking it.
They have already been replaced
This cargo was evacuated because, in May 2020, a carrier of the Japanese space agency JAXA, It came with six new lithium-ion batteries to replace it.
Because there is no ship to carry it, the space debris will move due to gravitational attraction until it enters the atmosphere.
Space debris is becoming a growing scourge in the neighborhood around our planet. A study by astronomers at the University of Warwick found that more than 75% of the detected wastes did not comply with the catalog active satellites.
Even International Space Station, which orbits at an altitude lower than the studied area, had to perform an evasive maneuver for a piece of space debris that came too close for its safety.
Studies continue to examine junk space and create algorithms that allow better prediction and identification of different types of debris and monitoring, in addition to supporting the creation of satellites that return to ground after his useful life.
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