Presentation | A43AA: Spaceflight and Earth’s Atmosphere: How the Coming Era of Larger and More Frequent Rocket Launches and Space Debris Reentries Could Affect Global Climate, Ozone, High-Altitude Clouds, and the Upper Atmosphere Poster
Poster
A43AA-2261: Rocket Launches and satellite reentry: The need for observational constraints given projections of a rapidly increasing number of low earth orbit satellite constellations
The space industry is currently growing more rapidly than during any earlier time period since the beginning of the space age. This results in increasing emissions in the middle atmosphere that can alter the ozone layer, and this needs to be quantified. Measurements, via laboratory experiments, remote sensing of launches and reentry, and in situ sampling are all needed to fully characterize space industry impacts on the atmosphere. This presentation will give an overview on what has been accomplished so far, and address what is needed to better characterize the impacts (and uncertainties) on the ozone layer from a growing space industry.
