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#108 Thomas Zurbuchen: Adventures in Astrophysics

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Challenges of Space Flight

As we put more and more satellites into the air, doesn't become a problem for launching rockets or so if i was organizing the of whole space flight according to its challenges, this would be a top five challenge. Most spacecraft that we have are in earth orbit. The second most sight is in co stationary orbit. That's where you're at do both weather observations, but also a younow th the t v satellites,. You know, the intent on the roof points towards co stationary orbit. It doesn't have to move at lowearth orbit. And it's really one of those things i think in the next ten years, we have to solve it. We have to clean that garbage.

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