More than 27,000 pieces of space junk are being tracked by the Department of Defense. While they're very small, it could get in the way of missions.
When it comes to UFOs and extraterrestrial life, all that's out there is not so clear. One big issue these days is trash in space.
By 2020, the roughly 2,200 operational satellites in space were joined by hundreds of thousands of pieces of satellite and shuttle debris of various sizes. Lu was an astronaut at NASA for 12 years and now works for LeoLabs, a company that provides satellite and space debris tracking services. But this debris is special — it’s too small to be tracked but large enough to get in the way of missions near Earth.
ESA said debris up to one centimeter could cause critical damage, and anything larger than 10 centimetes could"shatter a satellite or spacecraft into pieces." "It has the effect of just about breaking up anything into a catastrophic explosion due to the energy of that collision," Kessler said.In November last year, the five astronauts and two cosmonauts on the International Space Station were ordered to suit up and take refuge in their capsules. That was after Russia's planned destruction of one of its satellites that could have put them in the line of fire.
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