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In Episode 119 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk to Dr. John Crassidis of the University at Buffalo on orbital debris and its hazards.
If you’ve seen the movie “Gravity,” you have an understanding of the dangers of orbital debris—and the danger is very real. More than 25,000 four-inch-wide objects are tracked by the US Space Force, and millions more are smaller or undetectable – everything from defunct satellites to take the stages of dead rockets to pieces of shrapnel and even pieces of frozen rocket fuel are present. And even an object the size and weight of a paint chip, moving at orbital speed, could blow out a spacecraft window.
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This Space Week covers the new space age. Every Friday we dive deep into an interesting topic. What is happening with the new moon race and other planets? When exactly will SpaceX send people to Mars?
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Rod Pyle is an author, journalist, television producer and Editor-in-Chief of Astra advertising magazine. He has written 18 books on space history, research and development, including Space 2.0, NASA’s new approach, Interplanetary robots, Battle Plan, Amazing Space Age Stories, First in a Monthand Place of Mars
In a previous life, Rod produced numerous documentaries and short films for The History Channel, Discovery Communications, and Disney. He also worked on visual effects Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and go Battlestar Galactica reboot, as well as various sci-fi TV pilots. His most recent TV credit was on the NatGeo documentary Tom Wolfe The Right Stuff.
Responsible for Space.com’s editorial vision, Tariq Malik has been Space.com’s Editor-in-Chief since 2019 and has spent 18 years covering space and science. He joined the Space.com team in 2001, first as an intern and soon after as a full-time space reporter covering human space, exploration, astronomy and the night sky. He became the editor-in-chief of Space.com in 2009. As an on-air talent, he has presented space stories on CNN, Fox News, NPR and others.
Tariq is an Eagle Scout (yes, he earned a Space Exploration merit badge), a Space Camp veteran (4 times as a child, once as an adult), and has the last “vomit comet” trip while reporting on zero-gravity. fires. Before joining Space.com, he worked as a reporter for The Los Angeles Times covering urban sports and education. He has degrees in journalism from the University of Southern California and New York University.
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