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Ghosts in the Machine: Space Junk and the Future of Earth Orbit
Author(s) -
Gorman Alice
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2397
Subject(s) - astrobiology , earth (classical element) , orbit (dynamics) , earth's orbit , space (punctuation) , aerospace engineering , astronomy , aeronautics , engineering , computer science , spacecraft , physics , operating system
Hundreds of millions of objects are orbiting our planet, 94 per cent of which are pure machine debris. Space archaeologist Alice Gorman , who is Senior Lecturer at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, takes this AD's investigations beyond the Earth's surface and out into the near universe – looking at the material and cultural implications of the status quo, and reflecting on possibilities for the years and centuries to come.