To Pollution and Beyond
Biomedicine/Biosystems
2021
Advisors:
Executive Summary
What is the environmental impact of the Starlink Program? Starlink is a SpaceX program that plans to launch 42,000 satellites into space to provide internet access to areas that currently lack access. These satellites will be placed in space by the many launches of their Falcom 9 rocket every year for the next twenty years.
Problem Keywords
satellite
space
atmosphere
pollution
climate change
Scientific Keywords
black carbon
alumina
carbon dioxide
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