📆 Dec 22, 2022 “Ground-based #telescopes 🔭 remain essential for us to continually watch 👀 the skies 🌌, but a #SpaceBased infrared #observatory is the ultimate high ground that will enable #NASA’s #PlanetaryDefense strategy”. The #NEOSurveyor will view the #SolarSystem in infrared wavelengths. Because those wavelengths are mostly blocked by #Earth’s 🌏 #atmosphere, larger ground-based observatories 📡 may miss #NEO ☄️ that this #SpaceTelescope will be able to spot by using its modest light-collecting aperture of nearly 50 centimeters 📏. https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/marshall/construction-begins-on-nasas-next-generation-asteroid-hunter/
#NEOSurveyor is expected to be launched no later than 📆 June 2028 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEO_Surveyor
#SCMP 📆 12 Nov, 2023 The world’s biggest producer of #iPhones 📱 is going to #OuterSpace. Two prototype #LEO satellites 🛰️ took off aboard a #SpaceX rocket 🚀 from Vandenberg on Saturday. #Taiwan 🇹🇼 is working on a plan to launch its first LEO communication #satellite 🛰️, part of a strategy to develop #SpaceBased alternatives to the undersea cables that provide most of the island’s #internet connections 📶. https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3241251/apple-supplier-foxconns-satellites-hitch-ride-elon-musks-spacex-search-new-revenue-orbit
#OECD #SpaceSustainability as the next major #societal challenge - Growing socio-economic dependence on #SpaceAssets
📊 Statistics
• Almost 90 countries with a #satellite 🛰️ in #orbit
• Users and applications of #SpaceBased infrastructure
• #Orbital launch history
• Monthly number of objects in #Earth’s #orbits by object type
• Overview of current impacts and related costs of #SpaceDebris 🗑️
• Affected orbits and #space applications
• Operational satellites by type of operator and orbit altitude in low-earth orbits
• Top 50 most “concerning” orbital #debris 🗑️ objects
• Payload clearance attempts in #LEO above 650 km altitude
https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/16543990-en/1/3/2/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/16543990-en&_csp_=854a4bce42a0a0ccab7782305a6fe7d7&itemIGO=oecd&itemContentType=book#section-d1e908
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https://www.statista.com/chart/28309/countries-creating-the-most-space-debris
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