{"id":3928908,"date":"2026-11-13T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/solving-the-space-junk-crisis-isnt-just-about-counting-trash-its-about-control-and-economics\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T15:00:21","slug":"solving-the-space-junk-crisis-isnt-just-about-counting-trash-its-about-control-and-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/solving-the-space-junk-crisis-isnt-just-about-counting-trash-its-about-control-and-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Solving the space junk crisis isn&#8217;t just about counting trash\u2014it&#8217;s about control and economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>If people ever think about cleaning up space debris, they typically think of something equivalent to a giant garbage truck in the sky, collecting lost astronaut tools and dead satellites, then hauling them back down to Earth to be deposited in a landfill. But dealing with space debris doesn&#8217;t work that way, and a new paper by Dr. Slava Turyshev of NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, available as a preprint on arXiv, makes a good argument as to why. We typically cover Turyshev for his work on the solar gravitational lens idea.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-11-space-junk-crisis-isnt-trash.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If people ever think about cleaning up space debris, they typically think of something equivalent to a giant garbage truck in the sky, collecting lost astronaut tools and dead satellites, then hauling them back down to Earth to be deposited in a landfill. But dealing with space debris doesn&#8217;t work that way, and a new [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}