What if every satellite suddenly disappeared? - Moriba Jah
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What would happen if one day all of humanity’s artificial satellites suddenly disappeared? Within hours, most of the planet’s traffic would grind to a halt, the world economy would shut down, and most countries would declare a state of emergency. Even in the best-case scenario, our civilization would be set back by decades. So, what are the odds of this actually happening? Moriba Jah investigates.
No single entity observes all anthropogenic space objects all the time, but many people globally collect observations as much as possible. Do you have any ideas on how we might create a framework where all global observations of anthropogenic space objects could be openly and widely shared?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Moriba Jah
- Director Darvideo Animation Studio
- Narrator Addison Anderson
- Storyboard Artist Helen Pashynskih
- Animator Igor Kostin
- Sound Designer GSVP Sound Design
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Fact-Checker Eden Girma
