‘Harbinger’ of pollution? Scientists measure SpaceX rocket re-entry fireball in Earth's atmosphere — What we know

Scientists measured the pollution caused by the SpaceX rocket re-entry fireball in Earth's atmosphere. The team detected a ...

Study Confirms: Reentering SpaceX Rockets Are Peppering the Upper Atmosphere With Metal Pollution

The recent study focuses on the amount of lithium left behind from a single rocket reentry. Previous studies have already ...

SpaceX rocket left behind a plume of chemical pollution as it burnt up in the atmosphere

Space junk returning to Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, a ...
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Scientists measure air pollution from reentering SpaceX rocket in real-time: 'It's never been done before'

For the first time ever, scientists have observed in near real time a cloud of air pollution created as a SpaceX rocket burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

Study: Frequent rocket re-entries might harm atmosphere

Frequent deployment of satellites and re-entries by the rockets that deploy them might pose a risk to the Earth's upper ...

A SpaceX rocket left a lithium plume in our atmosphere — researchers say this could escalate

Scientists have detected a plume of lithium pollution in Earth’s upper atmosphere and traced it to the re-entry of a SpaceX ...
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Seminar: Overview of the KREPE re-entry missions - Jan. 24

Abstract: The Kentucky Re-entry Universal Payload System (KRUPS) provides a quick-turnaround, low-cost platform to conduct atmospheric entry experiments. KRUPS is designed to test multiple types of ...