Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Global 3D rocket launch and re-entry air pollutant and CO2 emissions at the onset of the megaconstellation era | Scientific Data

Global 3D rocket launch and re-entry air pollutant and CO2 emissions at the onset of the megaconstellation era | Scientific Data

Excerpt: ″The already frequent re-entry rates of satellites from megaconstellation missions, intentional design of megaconstellation satellites to undergo complete ablation (burn-up) on re-entry to Earth’s atmosphere (https://www.spacex.com/updates/#sustainability), and an increase in the cadence of rocket launches2 will increase the release of potentially harmful chemical byproducts into all layers of the atmosphere″

Source: nature.com