This summer, the children of franceinfo junior play the explorers… of space. To talk about the pollution of the sky, the program invites Stéphanie Lizy-Destez, teacher-researcher at Isae-Supaero, specialist in the design of space systems.
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The Vega-C rocket is scheduled for an inaugural launch on Thursday July 7, unless there is a significant weather problem. Space missions and its challenges are the dream of many children and adults. But the pollution of space, a little less. We talk about the subject in franceinfo junior with Stéphanie Lizy-Destez, teacher-researcher at Isae-Supaero, specialist in space systems.
Elsa and Naïm take the microphone to ask their questions: “Why is space polluted? What objects pollute space?” ask the students. Naïm wonders about the carbon footprint of manned space missions: he wants to know if astronauts pollute space. “How many liters of oil are there from a rocket that comes out in an hour?”, asks very precisely Elsa, who also wonders about the consequences of pollution on the Moon.
On this page, re-listen in full to this franceinfo junior program on space pollution.