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Episode 114: MITRE Futurist Charles Clancy on our Quantum Enabled Future

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The Kessler Effect and Space Debris

There's this theoretical point called the Kessler syndrome or the Kessler effect, where things start crashing into each other at such a moment that the debris is continuous and never ending. So we don't want the Kessler effect. And we need good solid policies that help anybody who launches anything into space be part of the solution. We've hit that point in space where we've gotten the point of congestion. There's all these sort of close calls of satellites getting too close to each otherWe call this a conjunction when two satellites are less than a kilometer away from each other. A kilometer is a pretty big distance there's no real jeopardy of something that's only a few meters wide hitting something that

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