ISRO report highlights 'growing congestion', with number of objects sent to space having increased by 24% in 2023 from previous year. India aims to have debris-free space missions by 2030.
The third stage of the Long March 3B rocket, used to launch the JSW-6 communication satellite in February last year, was being tracked for a week before its reentry.
An expert says China could spur international community to update a treaty rooted in the Cold War as it flagged the issue of SpaceX satellites' close encounters with its space lab.
The piece of debris is the core booster stage of the rocket. It is 30 m long and weighs over 20,000 kg, making it among the largest & heaviest pieces of space debris to fall back to earth.
China drew NASA criticism last year when debris from another Long March 5B rocket re-entered the atmosphere, with pieces of debris as long as 39 ft landing in Cote d’Ivoire.
Agencies advise capturing space waste with harpoons, nets or robotic arms and bring it it back to Earth in one piece, a process that can be replicated to gather plastic in the ocean.
The mission, called ClearSpace-1, will be launched in 2025, and will target some of the 128 million-plus pieces of debris floating around the Earth’s orbit.
If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.
Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.
In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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