Episode
895-Tracking Space Junk
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- Travelers In The Night
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- Apr 17, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 121
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Summary
According to NASA an average of one catalogued piece of space junk per day has come down to Earth over the past 50 years. Research is described which can track space junk in the atmosphere and provide the starting location and altitude for tracking clouds of environmentally problematic toxic chemical and/or nuclear contaminants released by the disintegration of reentering spacecraft.