Scientists Highlight Surprising New Threat to Satellites: Climate Change
By the year 2100, some parts of Earth orbit may have upwards of 66% less carrying capacity for satellites, according to a new ...
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Greenhouse Emissions Threaten The Future of Low Earth Orbit, Scientists Warn
Parker and his colleagues set out to close this knowledge gap. They used atmospheric modeling to determine the satellite load ...
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Climate change is shrinking Earth’s atmosphere - and that’s bad for satellites
Climate change is altering conditions in near-Earth space, which could limit the number of satellites that can reliably ...
The Sky Is Falling – And It’s Leaving Space Junk Stuck in Orbit
Greenhouse gases are doing more than warming our planet — they're reshaping space itself. As emissions cool and shrink the ...
Climate change may reduce the number of satellites that can safely orbit in space
MIT aerospace engineers have found that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways that, over time, will reduce the number of satellites that can sustainably ...
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Sky fall: MIT study predicts satellite traffic jams, collisions due to climate change
a baseline of year 2000 levels and scenarios aligned with IPCC projections. They concluded that increasing emissions ...
Climate change could be threatening satellites as they orbit in space: Study
The ongoing surge of greenhouse gas emissions in the near-Earth environment could cause dramatic declines in the number of satellites orbiting the planet by the end of the century, a new study has ...
Earth's atmosphere is shrinking and thinning, which is bad news for Starlink and other LEO Sats
The thermosphere extends from about 90 km to 500 km above Earth's surface. While conditions in the thermosphere are hellish, ...