Project 3_Christian Collins

 

  Witze, A. (2018). The quest to conquer earth’s space junk problem. Nature. 561.7721: 24–26.

The quest to conquer Earth’s space junk problem (nature.com)

 In 2009, a US commercial Iridium satellite smashed into an inactive Russian communications satellite called Cosmos-2251, creating thousands of new pieces of space shrapnel that now threaten other satellites in low Earth orbit — the zone stretching up to 2,000 kilometers in altitude. Altogether, there are roughly 20,000 human-made objects in orbit, from working satellites to small shards of solar panels and rocket pieces. And satellite operators can’t steer away from all potential collisions, because each move consumes time and fuel that could otherwise be used for the spacecraft’s main job. Concern about space junk goes back to the beginning of the satellite era, but the number of objects in orbit is rising so rapidly that researchers are investigating new ways of attacking the problem. Several teams are trying to improve methods for assessing what is in orbit, so that satellite operators can work more efficiently in ever-more-crowded space. Some researchers are now starting to compile a massive data set that includes the best possible information on where everything is in orbit. Others are developing taxonomies of space junk — working out how to measure properties such as the shape and size of an object, so that satellite operators know how much to worry about what’s coming their way. And several investigators are identifying special orbits that satellites could be moved into after they finish their missions, so they burn up in the atmosphere quickly, helping to clean up space. The alternative, many say, is unthinkable. Just a few uncontrolled space crashes could generate enough debris to set off a runaway cascade of fragments, rendering near-Earth space unusable. “If we go on like this, we will reach a point of no return,” says Carolin Frueh, an Astro dynamical researcher at Purdue University in West Lafayette, India

Contact, Daft Punk

(75) Daft Punk - Contact (Official Audio) - YouTube

In this section of my video, I used the mosaic transition between clips to create cohesion.  I would even add a general mosaic effect where I played with the settings to create a glitch effect.