The Future of Space Junk

Over decades of space exploration, thousands of rockets have launched, resulting in a sea of debris circling the Earth. It's estimated that there are 30,000 objects over 10 cm, 500,000 marble-sized debris, and 100 million smaller than that. Episode host Anna Ploszajski bravely goes into the unknown, in conversation with: Mike Lindsay , Chief Technology Operator at Astroscale, a start-up seeking to make space more sustainable by pioneering clean-up tech. Hugh Lewis , Professor of Astronautics at the University of Southampton. New episodes - conversations about how to rebuild the world better - every other Friday. Find podcast transcripts on our website . Follow @QEPrize on Twitter , Instagram , and Facebook for more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Future of Space Junk is an episode from Create the Future: An Engineering Podcast by Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.

This episode is 31:14 long.

This episode was published on Dec 13, 2024.

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