MELBOURNE, Fla. – For more than six decades, humans have been launching spacecraft into low-Earth orbit and out into the universe, including satellites that provide GPS and weather forecasting down on Earth but they have limited lifespans.
After a spacecraft is no longer serving a purpose, it becomes junk.On this week’s episode of Space Curious, we talk to experts who know a lot about space junk and what challenges humans face in cleaning up the messes we make.Daniel Batcheldor is the head of aerospace physics and space sciences at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne.