Trash In Space

We use satellites all the time, they are used for communication, and can monitor earth's climate, and can even hold tiny cameras to get data. (Satellite: an artificial body placed in orbit around the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication). Space junk is basically broken down satellites that are floating around our planet. Recently we have gotten word that this space junk is bumping into working satellites and causing them to break. This is an issue because without satellites, our main means of communication will be obliterated. A teenager by the name of Dana has come up with a type of satellite that has the ability to collect and destroy space junk and save our satellites! "Even bits of space junk as small as flecks of paint pose a threat. That’s because this debris orbits our planet at speeds up to some 28,200 kilometers per hour (17,500 miles per hour). That’s about 7.8 kilometers per second! Such blistering speed explains why tiny paint flecks have chipped the windshields of space shuttles so badly that they needed to be replaced," says Dana. If we listen to her and make her idea become a reality then our communication will be safe and our planet will have one less issue to solve!https://student.societyforscience.org/article/collecting-trash-space?mode=topic&context=60