Point Nemo, Rocket-Garbage Space Graveyard in the Pacific


 


The world space agency has a rocket graveyard and other spacecraft debris at Point Nemo in the Pacific Ocean.

Point Nemo is located between Australia, South America and New Zealand.

Point Nemo in Latin means 'no one'. The location has a depth of about 4,000 meters. Nothing lives nearby, and not much wildlife, making it the perfect dumping ground for space debris.

It's a marine burial ground for titanium fuel tanks and high-tech space debris.

They usually deliberately drop used rockets, spacecraft, and satellites to this point. This was done so that the space objects that fell to Earth did not endanger the inhabited areas.

Point Nemo (Point Nemo) is an ocean point that is far from any land in the world. The closest landmass to Nemo Point is 2,688 kilometers (about 1,450 miles) from the Pitcairn Islands to the north, one of the Easter Islands to the northwest, and Maher Island, part of Antarctica to the south.

"Its most interesting feature for controlled re-entry is that no one lives there," said Stijn Lemmens, a space debris expert at the European Space Agency.

"It just so happens that the biodiversity (in this place) is not too diverse," he continued, as quoted by Phys.

Previously, China came under fire from the United States (US). Articleya, the Long March 5B Yao-2 rocket fell uncontrollably. The US has criticized that with the current technology, rockets should no longer fall out of control. However, it can be directed so as not to endanger the population.

On Sunday (9/5), the rocket finally landed and fell in the Indian Ocean, near the Maldives. Information about the potential location where the rocket debris fell had previously raised concerns last week.

No casualties or losses were experienced by residents in the vicinity of the crash site. However, the United States had asked China to be "responsible" in managing its space vehicle debris.

US to Russia sink debris at Point Nemo

Based on the data, about 250 to 300 debris from the spacecraft that mostly burned when it penetrated the Earth's atmosphere were directed to fall at Nemo Point.

By far, the largest object that came down from the sky to fall at Point Nemo is Russia's MIR space laboratory, which weighed 120 tons in 2001.

"These are routinely used today by the Progress (Russia) capsule, which commute to the International Space Station (ISS)," said Lemmens.

Launching The Sun, in addition to the Russian MIR space laboratory, it is estimated that the International Space Station of 420 tons will also be drowned in this place after 2024.

It helps prevent the buildup of dangerous orbital space debris that could collide with satellites and future rocket launches.

"The smaller satellites will burn but the larger chunks will survive (remain) so they can get to the earth's surface," said astronomer David Whitehouse.

To land at Point Nemo, the technicians had to precisely time their vehicle descending so that it could hit the water.

The spacecraft break up when they re-enter the atmosphere, which means they land in the form of thousands of tiny pieces in the South Pacific.

The head of the European Space Agency's Space Garbage Office, Holger Krag, said the space vehicle debris could be scattered over an area spanning thousands of miles.

In the future, most spacecraft will be designed to 'die' with materials that melt at lower temperatures. So that makes them much less likely to survive when they reenter and hit the Earth's surface.

Both NASA and ESA, for example, are turning from titanium to aluminum in the manufacture of fuel tanks.


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