Tournament: Golden Desert at UNLV | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake NS | Judge: Zaid Umar
There's 8,000 Tons of Debris In Our Atmosphere
Weiner 3/21 Weiner, Chloee. "New Effort To Clean Up Space Junk Reaches Orbit." NPR.org, 21 Mar. 2021, https://www.npr.org/2021/03/21/979815691/new-effort-to-clean-up-space-junk-prepares-to-launch. Accessed 25 Jul. 2021.
A demonstration mission to test an idea to clean up space debris launched Monday morning
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meter tether into space to try to slow down and redirect space junk.
NASA tracking more dangerous space debris than ever before
NASA 15, 4-13-2015, "Space Debris and Human Spacecraft," NASA, https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/orbital_debris.html SK
More than 27,000 pieces of orbital debris, or "space junk,"
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action or other precautions to ensure the safety of the crew are needed.
Space debris collisions have significant impacts and are hard to avoid
https://www.esa.int/Safety_Security/Space_Debris/Hypervelocity_impacts_and_protecting_spacecraft
The consequences of meteoroid and debris impacts on spacecraft can range from small surface pits
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and testing of protective shields for the Columbus module of the Space Station.
Space-Debris-Satellite Collisions Are Increasing and A Global Solution is Needed
Starr 20 Michelle Starr. "Earth's Space Debris Problem Is Getting Worse, And There's an Explosive Component." ScienceAlert, https://www.sciencealert.com/the-space-debris-problem-is-getting-worse-not-better. Accessed 25 Jul. 2021.
Before humans first started sending objects into Earth orbit, the pocket of space around
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supported solution can be the answer," the ESA wrote in its report.
International treaties have made little progress at solving the space debris problem, and contain several critical solvency deficiencies
Weinzierl, Matthew. "Space, the final economic fronter." The Journal of Economic Perspectives , Vol. 32, No. 2 (Spring 2018), pp. 173-192,18. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26409430?seq=1~~#metadata_info_tab_contents
International agreements have made some progress on the issue of space debris by requiring that
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, a factor often credited with encouraging swift action on the ozone layer.
Private-Public partnerships are necessary to solve the space debris problem
Weinzierl, Matthew. "Space, the final economic fronter." The Journal of Economic Perspectives , Vol. 32, No. 2 (Spring 2018), pp. 173-192,18. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26409430?seq=1~~#metadata_info_tab_contents
The space debris problem is a classic example of negative externalities but in a setting
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debris could generate an outcome similar to the tragedy of the commons.4
Space debris has negative impacts on public welfare
Damjanov, Katarina. "Of Defunct Satellites and Other Space Debris: Media Waste in the Orbital Commons." Science, Technology, and Human Values, vol. 42, no. 1, Sage Publications, Inc., 2017, pp. 166–85, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26405576.
By the twenty-first century, orbital debris was identified as a substantial
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as a common "matter of concern" (Latour 2004).
Space junk spreads unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine
Most space junk is located in what is known as low Earth orbit – the zone within approximately 2,011 km of the planet's surface, and in which many satellites, such as the ISS and NASA's Earth Observing Fleet System, operate. Effects of space debris can be significant; allowing space junk to accumulate, and henceforth increase the risk of further collisions similar to that of Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251, poses a great risk to the possibility of future space exploration.
The 4700 launches that have been conducted across the globe since Sputnik 1 in
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launches 'because of toxicity of propellant and the danger of human exposure'.