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Space debris includes a glove lost by astronaut Ed White on the first American space-walk (EVA), a camera lost by Michael Collins near Gemini 10, a thermal blanket lost during STS-88, garbage bags jettisoned by Soviet cosmonauts during Mir's 15-year life, [79] a wrench, and a toothbrush. [80]
"Houston we have a trash problem". Wired. Schwartz, Evan I. (May 24, 2010). "The Looming Space Junk Crisis: It's Time to Take Out the Trash". Wired; Broad, William J. (12 February 2009). "Debris Spews Into Space After Satellites Collide". The New York Times. "Space junk littering orbit; might need cleaning up". Associated Press. 1 September 2011.
A record stay in earth’s orbit and a fine to Dish Network might have space debris in common. Space junk is causing problems — and experts think it’s just the start. Why it matters
Space debris plummeting back to Earth could be a growing problem for aircraft, researchers warned in a new study. The study authors, all affiliated with Canada's University of British Columbia ...
It deals with practical contemporary issues like the protection of the space environment [3] and hypothetical future issues pertaining to our interaction with extraterrestrial life forms. Specific issues of space ethics include space debris mitigation, the militarization of space and the ethics of SETI and METI , but also more theoretical ...
Space junk is a huge problem in orbit. Over 500,000 pieces of debris are currently orbiting the Earth at up to 17,500 miles per hour, and we haven't yet figured out how to clean it up. But ...
The European Space Agency is in talks with SpaceX about the possibility of Elon Musk's space venture joining an international charter designed to reduce a growing swarm of debris in space ...
Also, about sixteen old Soviet nuclear space reactors are known to have released an estimated 100,000 NaK liquid metal coolant droplets 800–900 km up, [5] which range in size from 1 – 6 cm. [5] The greatest risk to space missions is from untracked debris between 1 and 10 cm in size. [1]