Giant Rocket Launch Growth

This is a news story, published by State of the Planet, that relates primarily to Kostas Tsigaridis news.

Kostas Tsigaridis news

For more Kostas Tsigaridis news, you can click here:

more Kostas Tsigaridis news

space technology news

For more space technology news, you can click here:

more space technology news

State of the Planet news

For more news from State of the Planet, you can click here:

more news from State of the Planet

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best science news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like space technology news, you might also like this article about

Space debris

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest space junk news, bigger rockets news, space technology news, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

Rocket launches

State of the Planet

•

Science

Rocket Launches Are Proliferating. What Is This Doing to the Atmosphere?

Summary

Nutrition label

82% Informative

Since 2017 , both the number of launches and the size of their cargo loads have grown dramatically, with ever bigger rockets carrying ever larger numbers of satellites and other objects per launch.

There are now about 10,000 satellites in low- Earth orbit, and thousands more that have stopped working.

As launches increase, so will re-entries of failed or decommissioned spacecraft.

Kostas Tsigaridis is an atmospheric scientist at the Columbia Climate School’s Center for Climate Systems Research and its affiliated NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies .

The heating of the stratosphere from black carbon heats up the tropopause, allowing water to “leak” into stratosphere.

This alters the chemistry and destroys stratospheric ozone.

The erosion of ozone appears to not be a large effect on the global scale, but ongoing analysis implies enhanced polar ozone destruction will happen.

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language