Space Trash: Is It Coming For Us?
Every Little Thing
English - March 08, 2021 16:41 - 20 minutes - ★★★★★ - 4.4K ratingsEducation Comedy interview business comedy news culture entrepreneurship politics health science books Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The Earth is surrounded by a halo of trash — defunct satellites, discarded fuel tanks, one of Elon Musk’s Teslas. Listener Ryan wants to know: Does any of it ever fall down to Earth? ELT talks trash with Lottie Williams, the only person known to have been hit by falling space debris, and Ted Muelhaupt, director of the Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Study at The Aerospace Corporation.
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The Earth is surrounded by a halo of trash — defunct satellites, discarded fuel tanks, one of Elon Musk’s Teslas. Listener Ryan wants to know: Does any of it ever fall down to Earth? ELT talks trash with Lottie Williams, the only person known to have been hit by falling space debris, and Ted Muelhaupt, director of the Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Study at The Aerospace Corporation.
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