On Friday, the GAO released written testimony before the Subcommittees on Oversight and Investigations and Energy and Environment, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on the topic of polar satellites. The testimony reviewed and summarized work that National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) have been doing to develop individual [...]
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3 Jan
2011: A Garbage Odyssey?
Though global warming may have eclipsed litter as the environmental issue vying for our attention (when’s the last time you saw a public service announcement from Keeping America Beautiful?), there’s still one place where the (potentially lethal) effects of garbage are a pressing matter: space. Recent NASA estimates show tens of millions of pieces of [...]
