Talk about a potentially explosive issue.
The risk of rogue rocket debris and other man-made space junk colliding with planes is a growing challenge that’s only going to get worse as interplanetary traffic and commercial airline flights increase, experts warn.
This computer generated graphic provided by NASA shows images of objects in Earth’s orbit that are currently being tracked.“In short, there is a 26 percent chance of an uncontrolled space debris reentry in busy airspaces such as the Northeastern United States or Northern Europe each year,” said Ewan Wright at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Currently, more than 2,300 rocket bodies are floating up there somewhere — and are eventually expected to drop down wherever they feel like doing so, Space.com reported.
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