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This is how you throw trash in space


A photo of the International Space Station.

Things are more complicated on the ISS.
Photo: NASA (beautiful pictures)

I just moved to a new place on the fifth floor of a rather old building. Where is my last apartment? Comes with a garbage chute, this one doesn’t and instead requires a four-way down ride and backs up every time I dump the trash out. It’s a faff. But while my new leg workout may occasionally score, it’s nothing compared to my leg workout. dumping trash in space.

in a video shared on Twitter, astronaut Woody Hoburg talks about the grueling mission of cleaning up space junk, which includes a robotic arm and a two-year journey back to Earth. was brought in for the first time Our attention by Space.com, the video shows Hoburg discarding a piece of flight support equipment. Reporting website:

“NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg shows a cylindrical space debris safely drifting towards Earth after being thrown away by a Canadian robotic arm. The path of the debris will cause it to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in the summer of 2025 without risking the International Space Station.”

According to Space.com, the equipment removed from the ISS is a leftover kit after a project install new solar arrays on the station. To transport the solar arrays into space, they are transported into orbit on supports that hold them in place and immobilize them during flight.

Instead of paying thousands of dollars to bring these mounts back to Earth, they were simply thrown off the ISS by a robotic arm.Left to start a long time, fall slowly into the Earth’s atmosphere. At that time, the parts will burn out when re-entering.

The space station occasionally performs missions like this, usually before it undergoes a “re-acceleration” process. According to Space.com, the ISS must be brought back to orbit over time by an attached spacecraft to prevent it from falling into Earth’s atmosphere. As a result, tasks like this help reduce the amount of weight on the plane, making the process a little easier.

Garbage is not the only thing more complex in spaceorbital facilities require all kinds of equipment specifically designed to operate in zero-gravity conditions, includes a special toilet.

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