Space junk and micrometeoroids present serious problems for any satellite or ship that ventures into earth's orbit. While we don't yet have graviton-based deflector shields like in Star Trek, there are some shield technologies that we use today to protect the craft. In this episode, ACEMS Associate Investigators Dr Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi and Dr Anthony Mays talk about the problem of space junk and some statistical models that are used to predict the effectiveness of a shield.

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