The Naked Scientists Podcast
The Naked Scientists Podcast
The Naked Scientists
A Crash Course in Space Junk
55 minutes Posted Mar 14, 2017 at 12:00 am.
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There is a floating museum above our heads: millions of fragments from past space missions are hurtling round the earth and could destroy our current satellites. We find out how spacecraft are coping now, and how we might be able to clean up space in the future. Plus, news of a synthetically engineered yeast genome, a breakthrough in OCD and a new ebola vaccine for gorillas. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists