pollution
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NASA Wants a Giant Inflatable Bag to Collect and Throw Out Space Junk
Picking up the trash in space could be as easy as stuffing pieces of defunct spacecraft into a giant bag, closing it up, and tossing the pesky space junk into an orbital recycling plant. At least that’s what space startup TransAstra hopes to do with its inflatable capture bag. NASA recently awarded the California-based company…
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Steve Wozniak’s Space Company Wants to Be a ‘Ride Share’ for Satellites
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s space start-up Privateer aims to bring satellite access to the masses through a global online marketplace. Satellite-based data is primarily available to governments, but the company hopes to create a way for private citizens to share the cost of accessing a satellite, potentially bringing the cost down to $US50 per image…
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King Charles Unveils Jony Ive-Designed Seal for ‘Astra Carta’ Space Sustainability Initiative
King Charles III is really serious about keeping space clean, so much so that he unveiled the Astra Carta framework’s seal at Buckingham Palace yesterday.
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For Every Person on Earth, There Are 21,000 Pieces of Plastic in the Ocean
An analysis of global plastic data over the past four decades, published in the journal PLOS ONE, found that there’s now an estimated 170 trillion plastic particles — more than 2.2 million tons — floating in the world’s oceans. That number saw a sharp increase in the past 15 years, dovetailing, the researchers found, with…