Space junk does seem to be a growing problem. The target for a space debris cleanup mission is apparently in pieces. A leftover rocket adapter, expected to be removed from low Earth orbit in 2026 ...

There's a small crisis emerging in outer space ... for the final approach and eventual docking with a floating chunk of space junk. This mission will launch in 2027 and will bring the H-IIA ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) noted in its Annual Space Environment Report that more than 6,600 tons of space junk are currently floating about ... of space debris, as small as a millimeter ...

There are approximately 60,363 tracked objects in orbit, the vast majority of which is space ... too small to be tracked. Some speculate that there are over 8,000 metric tons of debris floating ...

There’s such a massive mess of space junk floating around the planet that scientists ... will have its own visible rings, but instead of small chunks of ice and space rocks like some other ...

These explosions add to the 170 million pieces of 1-millimeter debris currently floating in space ... team observed a small but temporary reduction in power—space agencies could ignore it ...

While the floating space junk is certainly a problem ... "Being paid compensation after the event would be a small consolation for someone killed or seriously injured," Gorman said.

So for really large pieces of space junk, so I'm talking large satellites that are abandoned or we have upper stage rocket bodies that are floating ... down to the really small scales.