NASA worried not just about space, but about space sustainability

The more nations launch satellites into space, the more crowded the orbit layers become. Especially in the burgeoning low earth orbit. NASA has a Space Environment Sustainability Advisory Board to help guide policy for an area of space that’s starting to look like the Beltway at rush hour. The board has defined the problem in terms of five challenges. Federal News Network’s Tom Temin got more from the associate administrator for NASA’s office of Technology, Policy and Strategy, Charity Weeden.

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