2021.04.04

Space Pollution

The new private launch industry can learn a lot from aviation about sustainability

OXIDIZING SOOT makes the plume of this Russian Soyuz-FG rocket glow during a 2015 launch from Kazakhstan. / NASA VIA GETTY

OXIDIZING SOOT makes the plume of this Russian Soyuz-FG rocket glow during a 2015 launch from Kazakhstan. / NASA VIA GETTY

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