Ariel Ekblaw

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TechStuff · TechStuff Redux: More AI in Space Than on Earth? Really!? · 26 Jun 2026 podcast

This, I think, is a critically important topic to try to figure out now.

So currently, the space industry does not have anywhere near the carbon footprint of, say, aviation.

But if we succeed in getting to that 10,000 number, we absolutely would, and maybe have even a more vast impact.

So there are really important, interesting endeavors to get out of this paradigm of chemical rocket propulsion as the only way to get mass to orbit.

And I do think that that's really important, is we need to do that research now so that we have a better base on which to stand for this growth that's coming in the industry.

But I do think people who are saying, you know, right now, oh, dear, what is the space industry doing?

Our carbon footprint is quite small compared to aviation.

So we have that responsibility to take it seriously and innovate around it now.

Yeah, so you're talking about the debris in orbit?

It certainly is.

The diagrams that people may have seen on the news are a little bit misleading because space is so vast.

When you make a dot the size of a period on a picture to try to indicate where the debris is in orbit, you are marking out so much space that it's not as crowded or as fuzzy as it looks on these images that people see online that are depicting the space debris.

But it is serious enough that sometimes the International Space Station has had to boost itself to avoid space debris or launch timing is changed because we're tracking the debris.

We have a pretty good sense of where it is.

But yeah, it's serious.

We sometimes see missions that have to plan around it.

And I think one of the best things that we could do is active remediation.

So ESA is really motivated.

The European Space Agency has some great programs around debris removal.

Companies like Astroscale are planning.

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