Late last year, the Russian military launched an anti-satellite missile into low-Earth orbit, blowing up one of its long-defunct satellites in orbit. As...
Is the Texas grid ready for winter? That's just the latest unanswered question about the failed deregulated electricity system that made Texas the laughingstock of America.From the earliest satellites to the modern Mars exploration missions, every spacecraft and satellite launch has left behind waste.
that low-Earth orbit would soon be filled with so much orbiting debris that astronauts could not safely work in space, and new satellites could not be launched safely. Kessler surmised that as space debris increased, so would collisions between objects, creating an exponential expansion of space debris until, eventually, we would have to abandon low-Earth orbit entirely.
Indeed, after the Russian anti-satellite missile test, the astronauts on the ISS scrambled to don space suits and take cover in an escape capsule just in case a piece of space waste struck the station. The collision did not happen. We got lucky — this time.
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