Space Junk Above Indonesia Space Region

Indonesia is one of an archipelago country. In Indonesia satellite is the most way to do telecommunications because landscape obstacle such as sea, mountain, dense forests, and others. In south Asia, Indonesia is the most country which have many satellites above it space region.

On the other side NASA claims that thousands of unidentifiable objects in orbit around the earth have the potential to damage humans as well as operational satellites. We need a solution to clean up the space waste or otherwise it will get harder to traverse the Earth’s orbit the more objects, such space debris, collide with one another.

It is our responsibility and opportunity to do something as a solution for this condition. One of reference solutions is End of Life Services by Astroscale demonstration, or ELSA-d, is a magnetic space debris conveyance device that was launched on March 22 by Tokyo, Japan-based startup Astroscale and Japan’s national space agency, JAXA.

Meanwhile Elon Musk see Indonesia as sexy market for starlink, Eutelsat group cooperate with DTP (Dwi Tunggal Putra) launch Oneweb as LEO (Low Earth Orbit) Satellite services in Indonesia. See how many satellite above Indonesia space? We can see it as our responsibility and opportunity to do something for Indonesia and for human being.

Dellih Wijaya / D6562
Alam Sutera, 8 Aug 2024

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Muhammad Zaenuddin Penulis. “Berapa Banyak Sampah yang Ada di Luar Angkasa?”.
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