Space Trash
Space junk has been amassing since the first human made satellite sputnik 1 escaped earth s gravitational pull on october 4 1957.
Space trash. Even if spacex can manage to keep its area in space clean there s a line of other companies waiting to build. Such debris includes nonfunctional spacecraft abandoned launch vehicle stages mission related debris and fragmentation debris. Space debris also known as space junk space pollution space waste space trash or space garbage is a term for defunct human made objects in space principally in earth orbit which no longer serve a useful function.
A defunct russian satellite and a spent chinese rocket just floating around high over earth could smash into each other within a few. And the number is only predicted. It had broken off of a soviet military weather.
A well known piece of space trash it had been labelled object no. There are more than 20 000 pieces of debris larger than a softball orbiting the earth. Space debris has become an increasing risk in orbit.
Nasa admin warns iss space junk problem is getting worse after 3 near collisions. 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. 36912 in an extensive inventory of orbital artifacts known as the norad catalogue.
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. The momentous event heralded the start of the space age as. Space junk has the potential to damage working satellites and.