Space Garbage
Space debris and human spacecraft more than 500 000 pieces of debris or space junk are tracked as they orbit the earth.
Space garbage. They all travel at speeds up to 17 500 mph fast enough for a relatively small piece of orbital debris to damage a satellite or a spacecraft. These include derelict spacecraft nonfunctional spacecraft and abandoned launch vehicle stages mission related debris and particularly numerous in earth orbit fragmentation debris from the breakup of derelict rocket bodies and spacecraft. A defunct russian satellite and a spent chinese rocket just floating around high over earth could smash into each other within a few.
Space debris also called space junk artificial material that is orbiting earth but is no longer functional. Cnn one of the largest pieces of uncontrolled space debris fell back down and landed on earth today passing directly over los angeles and central park in new york city and landing in the.