Capítulo VI. Basura espacial

Pages201-238
AuthorChristian Domínguez Expósito
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
BASURA ESPACIAL
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
589
   
    
   
590
587 Ibidem, párr. 105, p. 16.
588 Technical Report on Spa ce Debris of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the
COPUOS, UN Doc. A/AC.10 5/720, 1999, párr. 6, p. 2.
589 Foro gubernamental inter nacional para la coordinación mundial de a ctividades relaciona-
das con los problemas de los desechos artificiales y naturales en el espacio ultraterrestre, en-
tre cuyos propósitos prin cipales se encuentran “intercambiar infor mación sobre las activida-
des de investigación de d esechos espaciales entre las agencias espac iales miembros, facili-
tar oportunidades de cooper ación en la investigación de desechos es paciales, revisar el pro-
greso de las actividades cooperativas en curso e identificar opciones de reducción de
desechos. Forman parte de l mismo las siguientes agencias espacial es: la ASI (Agenzia
Spaziale Italiana), el CN ES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales), la CNSA (China National
Space Administration), la CSA (Canadian Space Agency), el DL R (German Aerospace Cen-
ter), la ESA (European Sp ace Agency), la ISRO (Indian Space Researc h Organisation), la
JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exp loration Agency), el KARI (Korea Aerospa ce Research Institute),
la NASA (National Aeronau tics and Space Administration), RO SCOSMOS (State Space Cor-
poration), la SSAU (State Space Agency of Ukraine) y la UK Space Age ncy. Véase:
https://iadc-home.org/what_iadc
590 Key Definitions of the I nter-Agency Space Debris Coordination C ommittee, IADC Doc.
IADC-13-02, abril de 2013.
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


592
 
        
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593
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594
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  
       
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   

595

591
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592
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No obstante, un prometed or estudio liderado por investigadores de la Universidad de Mi-
chigan ha identificado una posible solución para detectar esta bas ura “indetectable”. Según el
estudio, cuando los fragm entos de basura espacial chocan entre sí, emiten durante una frac-
ción de segundo señales e léctricas que podrían ser rastreadas. Esto s estallidos podrían ayu-
dar a identificar fragme ntos de desechos espaciales y nubes micro scópicas resultantes de las
colisiones, lo que signif ica que, irónicamente, las colisio nes entre desechos espaciales po-
drían ser la mejor maner a de detectar los fragmentos más pequeño s en el espacio ultrate-
rrestre y que representan más del 99% de la basura espacial. Véase: Smith, D. (December
4, 2023). Tracking undete ctable space junk. Michigan Engineer ing. University of Michigan.
Disponible en: https:// news.engin.umich.edu/2023/12/tracking -undetectable-space-junk/
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Ibidem.

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