because we don’t have enough problems here on earth
massive amounts of metal are flying around space at over 660 feet per second thanks to two satellites colliding earlier this week. the satellites, one an old nonfunctional russian satellite and the other a privately owned satellite, ran into each other in orbit somewhere over serbia causing the crash. apparently, this type of thing has happened before in space but this is the largest of them yet. the space folks don’t think there’s any immediate concern but there is a small possibility that one of the loose pieces of metal floating around will hit the international space station. what is more likely to happen is the debris will crash into one of the many other satellites in the area.
this of course brings up all kinds of issues and have got tons of people riled up on what we send to space and how we monitor them. check out the depiction below from the european space operations centre of the trackable objects in orbit around earth. a little scary.
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