Just as millions of tons of plastic pollute our planet's waterways and oceans each year, man-made space objects totaling thousands of metric tons are polluting the celestial space surrounding our planet, and the problem is growing.
A report by Salon cited the European Space Agency ( ESA ), who said the total mass of all "man-made space objects in Earth's orbit is more than 9,200 metric tons." To break that down by size, ESA indicated statistical models estimate there are "34,000 objects greater than 10 centimeters; 900,000 objects greater than 1 centimeter and up to 10 centimeters, and 128 million objects greater than 1 millimeter to 1 centimeter."
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French fine wine still fine after orbiting Earth
Bordeaux, France : It tastes like rose petals. It smells like a campfire. It glistens with a burnt-orange hue. What is it? A €5000 bottle of Petrus Pomerol wine that spent a year in space.
Researchers in Bordeaux are analysing a dozen bottles of the precious liquid — along with 320 snippets of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon grapevines — that returned to Earth in January after a sojourn aboard the International Space Station.
They announced their preliminary impressions on Thursday (AEDT) — mainly, that weightlessness didn't ruin the wine and it seemed to energise the vines.
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BORDEAUX, France (AP) — It tastes like rose petals. It smells like a campfire. It glistens with a burnt-orange hue. What is it? A 5,000-euro bottle of Petrus Pomerol wine that spent a year in space.
Researchers in Bordeaux are analyzing a dozen bottles of the precious liquid — along with 320 snippets of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon grapevines — that returned to Earth in January after a sojourn aboard the International Space Station .
They announced their preliminary impressions Wednesday — mainly, that weightlessness didn't ruin the wine and it seemed to energize the vines.
A Giant Banana Orbiting the Earth
What if a giant banana was orbiting the Earth at the same distance as the ISS? What would that look like? Well, it would look something like this.
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Cosmic mouthful: Connoisseurs savor fine wine that orbited Earth | Fox Business
Vintage Wine Estates CEO Pat Roney and Bespoke Capital Executive Chairman Paul Walsh on taking Vintage Wine Estates public via SPAC and how the wine industry has been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
They announced their preliminary impressions Wednesday — mainly, that weightlessness didn’t ruin the wine and it seemed to energize the vines.
At a one-of-a-kind tasting this month, 12 connoisseurs sampled one of the space-traveled wines, blindly tasting it alongside a bottle from the same vintage that had stayed in a cellar.
Tasters savor fine wine that orbited Earth | News, Sports, Jobs - Morning Journal
Philippe Darriet, Président of the Institute for wine and vine research and head oenologist fills glasses with wine for a blind tasting at the ISVV Institue in Villenave-d'Ornon, southwestern France, Monday, March 1, 2021. Researchers in Bordeaux are carefully studying a dozen bottles of French wine that returned to Earth after a stay aboard the International Space Station. They're releasing preliminary results Wednesday.
BORDEAUX, France — It tastes like rose petals. It smells like a campfire. It glistens with a burnt-orange hue. What is it? A 5,000-euro bottle of Petrus Pomerol wine that spent a year in space.
Seven new satellites are orbiting Earth after successful Rocket Lab mission - Long Beach Business
Earth's orbit gained seven new small satellites Monday after a successful launch and payload delivery by Long Beach-based aerospace company Rocket Lab.
The mission, dubbed "They Go Up So Fast," launched from the company's complex on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula at 3:30 p.m. PDT and delivered assets for multiple clients, including several commercial operators, government organizations, academic institutions and startups.
Rocket Lab's Electron rocket launched into a 340-mile circular orbit, where its integrated space tug, or Kick Stage, deployed five satellites. The craft reignited and moved to a lower altitude to deploy a sixth satellite 280 miles above the Earth's surface.
Europe plans space claw to capture orbiting junk | Science | AAAS
A rendering of how the ClearSpace-1 mission will grapple a discarded payload adapter with its four-arm claw.
The European Space Agency (ESA) today finalized a contract to launch a mission in 2025 that will be the first to capture and dispose of a piece of orbiting space junk. The ClearSpace-1 mission, built by Swiss startup ClearSpace, will home in on a piece of debris the size of a washing machine, grapple it with a four-armed claw, and escort it down to a lower orbit where the duo will enter the atmosphere and burn up.
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