Waste in orbit can make us prisoners of our own planet. See what threatens us all

Damage to the Canadarm2 robotic arm was found during a routine inspection by the International Space Station (ISS) in May. A stray fragment has made a small hole in the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) arm for 20 years

11. In November, the station had to maneuver against the wreckage of the Chinese meteorological satellite Fengyun-1C, which was shot down by China itself in 2007 during a test of the anti-satellite missile (Anti-satellite Weapons, ASAT). Three and a half thousand fragments have been created, some of which are still threatening the ISS.

In addition, Russia shot down its own Ikar 39L satellite four days later. The impact of the anti-satellite missile created another about fifteen hundred fragments moving near the ISS.

These recent incidents show that we have a problem over our heads that we do not see because of its distance, which does not mean that

Everything is increasing in orbit, but not free space

Each collision will generate a quantity of cosmic garbage. If these debris hit other objects, more fragments will form, and so on. This phenomenon is called Kessler’s syndrome and was described by astrophysicist Donald J. Kessler in 1978.

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