Worst Space Debris Events of All Time

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 16:01 in Astronomy & Space

The shootdown of the spy satellite USA-193 sparked talk about the graveyard of outer space, which is crowded with some 17,000 spent rocket stages, dead or dying satellites and countless crumbs of human-made orbital flotsam. An average of one object has re

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