Project Overview

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Invitation Code:  iridiumcosmos
 
Project Summary

Kessler@home is a volunteer computing project studying the long-term stability of low Earth orbit. In 1978, NASA scientists Donald Kessler and Burton Cour-Palais described how collisions between objects in orbit could create debris faster than the atmosphere removes it, setting off a self-sustaining cascade now known as the Kessler syndrome.

Your computer will simulate futures of the orbital environment up to 200 years long, stopping early only once a runaway cascade is unmistakable: launches, satellite failures, collisions, and the debris clouds they produce. Running hundreds of these futures for each of more than 200,000 scenarios, covering launch traffic, the planned megaconstellations, disposal reliability, debris removal and the changing atmosphere, lets us estimate how likely a runaway cascade is and when it would come, not just what the average future looks like.

Applications

The following applications are supported:

Please see their Applications page.  HERE

NOTE:

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Connecting to the Project

Attach to Project:  https://kesslerathome.org/

The projects Home Page is at: https://kesslerathome.org/

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Statistics

View our Team Members List and their current score here
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