SpaceX has found a way to avoid clogging the space

On the earth’s orbit is full of debris.

Given the difficult situation with the presence of large amounts of space debris in earth orbit, the company SpaceX has made its draft SpaceX Starlink some adjustments.

In earth orbit full of debris from the wreckage of the crashed satellites to tools lost during a spacewalk. Now NASA is tracking more than half a million pieces of debris, most of which moves fast enough and is able to cause serious damage to the spacecraft. More than 200 thousand of them are larger than the softball.

The Starlink project SpaceX – launch about 12 thousand communication satellites for the launch of a global Internet may exacerbate this problem.

However, according to the publication the Verge, SpaceX may already be a ready solution to this: to host more than a thousand satellites Starlink at a height less than that originally planned (1110 kilometers). The company is confident in the advantages of this solution.

First, the satellites would be out of reach for most of existing space debris. Secondly, with the height of 550 kilometres, the satellites will be much easier to return to Earth on completion of work, and, according to NASA, this will occur approximately every five years. At this altitude the earth’s atmosphere will automatically get rid of garbage SpaceX, slowly displacing the satellites orbit.

For the space industry good that SpaceX in advance to think about the effects of additional debris in orbit. Sending satellites into orbit just so they knocked some old space debris, does not Bode well, especially if you are working on the International space station.