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One US expert on space junk who traveled to Australia called the threat of a truly damaging collision “inevitable.” A hole in NASA’s Solamax equipment caused by space junk. The hole is 500 ...

At this moment, there are approximately 35,000 tracked human-generated objects in orbit around Earth. Of these, only about ...

One called the collision "a catastrophic event" that he hoped would force the new U.S. administration to address the issue of debris in space. Russian Mission Control chief Vladimir Solovyov said ...

Orbital debris is (nearly) forever, and threatens to render near-Earth space (under 1250 miles, or 2000 km altitude) unusable, and all but impassible. The 2007 Chinese anti-satellite test and the ...

Satellite collision highlights the danger of space junk to precious gear. Feb. 13, 2009— -- The already hobbled Hubble Space Telescope could be further harmed by space debris from Wednesday's ...

Using this model proposed by the UMA, it is estimated that space debris would rise by 25,500,000 fragments larger than 1 centimeter, thus increasing the probability of collision and the number of ...

About 25,000 are pieces of obsolete satellites, rocket parts and debris — space junk orbiting out of ... making it hard to avoid collision.

as well as its Space Debris Office, which monitors and models the debris environment to reduce collision and re-entry. Its Space Environment Report however also points out that "current levels of ...