Orbiting debris reaching critical mass
“Early this year, after a half-century of growth, the federal list of detectable objects (four inches wide or larger) reached 10,000, including dead satellites, spent rocket stages, a camera, a hand tool and junkyards of whirling debris left over from chance explosions and destructive tests.”
Apparently China’s Jan. 11 test of an antisatellite rocket that shattered an old satellite into hundreds of large fragments didn’t help matters either…