#ScientificAmerican 📆 July 29, 2022 🛰️ "#Debris turns into #dust of some importance to the #stratosphere, then it will compete with, if not be larger, than the #launch side.#Satellites have all these #weird #metals, and we have no idea of what their #reactivity with the #atmosphere will be." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/don-rsquo-t-fear-china-rsquo-s-falling-rocket-mdash-fear-the-future-it-foretells
#WashingtonPost 📆 October 21, 2023 The discovery sheds light on the #environmental aftermath of a growing number of #rockets 🚀, #satellites 🛰️ and other human-made #spacecraft that give off metal vapors 💨 as they reenter 🔥 the #atmosphere https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/10/21/satellites-rockets-shed-metals-space
@spaceflight I think a better way to put it would be that they identified a potential problem, but more study will be needed to determine the actual environmental impact.
As in, here's a thing. What's the impact of the thing? Not sure yet, but at least now we know to go look.
@volkris sure 😁 https://techhub.social/@spaceflight/110171796784214904