Right now at work I’m reviewing a series of UN space committee documents submitted by member countries, reporting satellite launches and characteristics. Only recently did I realize that manmade satellites orbiting the earth number in the thousands. For some reason I always thought it was a lot less than that. And there’s a lot of debris floating around up there too.
Anyway, I found this sort of cute: last year the Czech Republic launched a satellite called MIMOSA (Micro-Measurements of Satellite Acceleration). Cool, but can it serve brunch too?
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Ah, “Space Junk”, it brings back happy memories of the 1970’s and SpaceLab.