How Do Spacecrafts Avoid Space Junk? 

So not only did people pollute the earth but also space ? 😭

i wish i could get encounters like that in kerbal space program

Aliens be like: Ew, that planet has lice

I love how they made a rule where you can't litter in space but yet they're doing it

That's the reason that Aliens don't bother to enter earth's atmosphere 😂

Bro if there are any aliens out there, the Earth must look like a redneck front lawn

Aliens won't talk to us cuz we trash.

imagine an alien fleet invades and they get done in by "space junk" XD

Me dropping a purple skittle in space only to find out it brought the iss down the next morning.

They say if it gets much worse we can be trapped on earth forever

Just click Remove Debris💀💀💀

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune: See how beautiful of us having a ring around us! Earth: Yo! Check my rings it forms a cage around me!

...not UP TO 17500....but STARTING AT that speed Because that's minimal orbital velocity

Space junk is not as much of an issue as people make it out to be. 23,000 items the size of a softball seems like a lot until you imagine how much space 23,000 softballs would cover on the surface of the Earth. Now expand the radius of the Earth 100 miles and you would have roughly one softball for every 2 square miles. It gets even more complex than that because of the different heights of orbits, 100 miles above the earth would be the minimum to reach space.

Fun fact: Smaller orbital debris under a cm are grouped with micrometeoroid in fact many space agencies refer this as MMOD (Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris), even the smallest of these, like paint flecks have kinetic energy to seriously damage spacecrafts

Earth: Mom i want beautiful rings like saturn Mom; we got rings at home The rings:

We are so blessed to be a part of this man's community

“It’s near impossible to collide with an object in space while traveling at light speed because of the voidness of space itself. Unless you’re near Earth’s orbit…”

Everyone worrying about this: Don’t worry, a company called Astroscale is dedicated to picking up space junk so other space missions aren’t impacted by debris! The CTO of the company came to talk at my school and he explained how their satellites work. Once they detect pieces big enough to be picked up, they bring it back to the Earth’s atmosphere to be burned up, and the best thing is, it doesn’t pollute the Earth! Next step: Do that with the Garbage Patch

it’s amazing how something as small as a millimeter could do damage

Space: has trash in it MrBeast: teamspace (Edit) this is the most likes I’ve gotten in anything thank you

Me walking into my room when it's dirty, as opposed to actually cleaning it

There should be a stellaris event where a tomb world could spawn with junk blocking off entry

Aliens look at our planet like: *man this shit dirty as hell. Don’t fuckin wanna be here.*

The relative speeds of space junk hitting satellites can vary from 0 to like 30000 mph, depending on the relative inclanation of their orbits. There are some retrograde orbits that cross prgrade orbits.

Please make a complete video in this subject. It's an important question for a space passionate like me

We really litter everywhere, even the outer space where we don't live in.

There's literally a whole anime about cleaning speace in future becomes a job.

So WALL-E is a prediction of the future…

Imagine if a random group of 8 alien ships came to invade Earth by surprise but they just got destroyed by the trash orbiting earth 💀💀

We literally are slowly Dyson sphering our selves. 😂

If we don't deal with space junk it will fill the space around the earth and trap humanity from leaving the planet.

Lmao. That's why I see none of it through my telescope

New business unlocked "Space junk cleaning"

Now I understand why aliens don’t visit us. We have a shield in orbit which would destroy their ships.

We really need to do something about all that space trash, I feel like it’s very dangerous to be that close to it, it’s like a barrier

When are we gonna make a roomba for space

"How could an alien possibly crash onto our planet?" This is how, lil alien bro finna be looking at our planet then getting hit by some random soace junk going at 17,500 miles per hour

'i tried to create a suit of armour around the world, but I created something terrible'

Imagine someone gets hit 😵

Soon that problem will compound until we can't send spacecrafts

When those 1mm pieces puncture the ISS' protective shields and kevlar but only make 10 more 1mm pieces 🤡

People: What's our defence against Alien Invasion? Govt: Space Junk.

This should just prove how big the earth is, because any time I’ve ever watched the international space station there’s only been a few times I’ve even seen a piece of space junk floating around! This planet is absolutely huge and awesome

You know you're watching an American video when size is compared to softballs and speed to bullets

I think they've been working on cleaning junk since 2015 and they are now thinking of making it economical and automated in the long run.

5.56 Bullets travel at speed of 2k M/H, but probably will not travel over 2 miles. By the way is that the initial speed that will gradually drop? Or Average?

Imagine those valuable parts which we engineers and hobbyists can use for creativity

Plasma star: "granny chasing sound effect" Phobos Mars moon: a mr incredible becoming uncanny phase sound

The waffle House has found its new host

"this is what an eraser will do" Famous last words

Imagine mother earth created humans to make space debris in order to protect itself from something we don't know about yet!

There are contracts available for new materials , designs needed for something capable of removal of this space junk, tools capable of cutting or grabbing that can be used in a space suit ,a space suit with extreme radiation resistance and extra strong to reduce the chance of death by impact ect,. These are real contracts I have read through some not all of them I will find the link for anyone interested.

This is probably how the aliens know where to avoid, its those fuck around and find out aliens that earth has seen 😅

there was a unique opportunity for me to see all the space junk during a clear sky just before sunrise .i literally saw 50 space junk with my bare eyes in just 30 minutes .most of them were rocket propellants.

we're scaring away intergalactic tourists with all those objects that are unfamiliar to them. they probably think our space junk are weapons lol

There is a good thing from this as if we’re lucky enough we could have a hand made ring protecting us from deadly asteroids

Nah who’s space junk interrupted my gps 💀💀💀

It should be noted that those 17_500 mph are orbital velocities. That's not to say space junk doesn't fly that fast, but it means that speeds relative to a potential spacecraft can be all over the place. For example: If the craft happens to have the exact orbit of a piece, their relative speed will be 0. On the other hand, if they have opposing orbits, where the directions are inverted, a potebtial collision would logically have a relative velocity of 35_000 mph. TL;DR: Orbital speeds are weird and relative speed to a piece of space junk can vary wildly.

Imagine that you have finally achieved the job of your dreams, working at the ISS, you get out of the station on your first ever space walk for routine maintenance, and then you get obliterated by a fucking pencil

actaully, 17000 isnt as bad as you think, most sattelites with similar orbits will have similar speeds because a certain speed is required for an object to orbit, meaning 2 objects will have a small relative velocity. If an object has a speed of 50 meters a second in X direction and hits an object infront of it going 49 meters a second in that same X direction, the collision would be the same as a 1 meter per second collision

Thank god you said an actual round instead of just “a BuLlEtT!” it gives some actual frame of reference and isn’t just a meaningless number

Earth now have a protective shield against E.T.s

Imagine doing a space walk and suddently you get chopped by a piece of f*cking space junk

i was wondering this yesterday actually

How did they put it up there and so much of it?

I don't think people really rhe magnitude of how sparsely these are spread.

How do we solve the problem of space junk? Elon Musk: Yes.

See this is why aliens never visited us, they can't risk getting their spaceships rammed by junks

Bro we not gon survive till the sun dies when we can’t even keep space clean 💀

Well the reference you gave about the speed of these objects was so American 😂😂

Maybe in the future, space probes could be sent to collect all this space junk. That would be pretty cool. :)

Bro just casually called Cosmos as Space Junk XD

Someone needs to make a giant space net

This is present situation, but Future is much scary than you can think.

We have space armor to protect us from alien invasion 😂

Any junk that ricochet off each other might fly out of Earth's gravity well. So that stuff isn't just circling Earth, it's part of the universe now. Imagine we get a rover onto Jupiter's moon in 10 years and just as we start taking pictures, it's destroyed by a titanium bar that Kevin's grandpa let slip away years ago.

That is the most American thing I have ever heard "a 55.6 round travels at around 2000 mph" I am a huge gun nerd and even I didn't know that 😂😂😂

no wonder aliens are not interested in earth lol

The gravity of the moon would slowly pull them into a parallel orbit with it, right? Also collisions with each other and bits of air from the Earth would slowly slow them down and remove them over time. But how much time?

There really needs to be a company that is able to clean up space and recycle all the space junk and be able to resell it for like other goods or something as their main source of income. I would think that would be pretty useful to do.

Bro imagine the humans polluted the entire solar system 💀💀

So this is why Alien didn't come to Earth.

Aliens be thinking, that species on earth is so advanced that they created a thing to protect the earth 💀

Great manga and anime about this called "Planetes". Good stuff.

space is soooooo wide and your "satellite" or "junk" is huge, bigger even than an island😭

A day will come when there will be drive to clean 'space junk'

Ppl, the fotage he shows with the polution in the orbit is obviously made extremer than it actually is, yes polution in the orbit is still a big problem, cause we can't leave earlh at some point, but its not as extreme as shown, Yet

No wonder alien won't coming here, it's literally traffic jam there...😂

Imagine being on the ISS and anytime a piece traveling 10x as fast as a bullet can hit you.

using 5.56 rounds' speed for reference because it's a common thing that everybody in the USA familiar to

Makes me wonder why some planets have rings... Eventually this will all thin out and create a garbage ring. Nasty af

So that explains the chaos in the beginning scene of that space movie Gravity

Aliens : Hey humans not even outer space Humans : No

people who played ksp know how insanely hard and unlikely it is to meet another craft in orbit. there's so much space

Nice. Now we need space cleaning department !

Serious question, how do we get rid of space junk? It’s traveling at 1000s of mph. How do we catch it without damaging the whatever we plan on using to catch

They dont mention it much anymore but micro meteorites flying around at insane speeds that pose a threat lol

Bruh everytime i see videos of space junk around earth i just keep thinking of wall-e and how close the events in the movie to happening to us

How do Spacecraft avoid Space Junk? NASA : "What do you mean we need to avoid?"