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Shipping to Australia? We’ll find you the best price!Don’t Look Up! Australia Develops Laser Tracking System
One more positive reason to encourage moving to Australia, immigrants will not need to worry about the odd piece of space junk falling on their head. A super high tech laser tracking system has been developed in Australia and can keep track of thousands of pieces of space junk. The Electric Optic System has built in lasers that can spot particles as small as 10 centimeters wide.
Although, an object a mere 10 centimeters wide would most probably burn up on reentry and therefore is only a threat to astronauts and satellites. But larger objects that do not burn up once entering the atmosphere will never surprise anyone, thanks to the advanced motion tracking system that can predict where the object will fall.
Currently there are about 200,000 pieces of garbage, all smaller than one centimeter, circling the globe in orbit. Sadly, there are over 500,000 larger pieces of junk also floating around. From left over rocket boosters to shattered pieces of metal from blown up Chinese satellites, the system will track them all.
