‘A terrible, terrible thing’: NASA said India’s satellite destruction created so much space junk it threatens the safety of the International Space Station
NASA called India’s destruction of a satellite in March a…
Space Debris.
With decades of space travel, our orbit became a junkyard of debris, with pieces of broken satellites, parts of missile tests, and explosions. This debris is moving up to 30 thousand kilometres per hour, making even the smaller debris a risk to loose functionalities like global communication, GPS and navigation, weather collecting data, asteroids and scientific findings, by impacting to our working satellites. To insure this doesn’t happen we created the Impact2Space.
