Ensuring Accessibility To Space
Overview
At Space Interactions our mission is to ensure accessibility and clear pathways to space for humanity and its future.
We are building a safe and secure platform to make the next big leap in global space traffic management. Uniquely designed to enable greater collaboration, participation and trust, our platform empowers a global customer base with the most resilient space object tracking data, analytics and tools to safely operate in space.
Orbital Debris
What is orbital debris and why is it a threat?
Orbital debris is any human-made object in orbit around the Earth that is either inoperable or uncontrollable. Examples of orbital debris are nonfunctional spacecraft, abandoned launch vehicle stages, mission-related debris, and fragmentation debris.
The threat presented by orbital debris lies in its intrinsic value of traveling blazingly fast. At speeds upwards of 20,000 mph, debris that is relatively small in size can provide the destructive force necessary to damage or disable an entire satellite or spacecraft.
How much debris is out there?
36,500
Objects > 10 cm in size.
1,000,000
Estimated objects from 1 cm to 10 cm in size.
100,000,000
Estimated objects from 1mm to 1cm in size.