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Space Junk

10/31/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Space junk poses severe hazard to astronauts and satellites and must be cleaned up, warn experts

The European Space Agency (ESA) warns that millions of floating objects around our planet can lead to a disastrous collision in space. “Space junk” as the objects are called, could very well make certain regions of space unsuitable for travel and pose a very real threat to astronauts. In a new video, the ESA says […]

06/13/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

Nearly ALL communications satellites could be obliterated in the next few years from a cascading “explosion” of space debris

Space junk is an imminent menace to communications satellites, scientists are warning. Satellites, particularly of a military variety, are already under potential threat from ground-based hostile aggressors with missiles, lasers, kinetic weapons, cyber attacks, and other disruptive measures. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist, as it were, to realize that space trash left behind […]

05/05/2017 / By Russel Davis

Space pollution reaching dangerous levels as 750,000 pieces of debris are orbiting earth

A recent conference on space rubbish revealed that more than 750,000 pieces of dangerous debris currently orbit the earth. According to experts, these debris may threaten the future of spaceflight. The experts noted that more than 5,250 launches have been conducted since 1957, which accounted for more than 23,000 tracked objects found in orbit and around […]

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