Air Force Secretary Barrett Issues Call for Clean-Up of Space Debris

摘要

Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett on Nov. 16 called on industry to help the Air Force and U.S.Space Force with cleaning up space debris to help avoid collisions in space."For a long time, the United States Air Force has been tracking space debris, but there's a lotmore to be done," Barrett told the ASCEND 2020 forum sponsored by the American Institute ofAeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). "What we'd like to see in the future is not just tracking,but cleaning up that litter--figuring ways how do you consolidate, how do you get that hazard--17,500 miles per hour rocketing through space, it is a great hazard."