space junk

Space junk, not meteorites, remains biggest threat to spacecraft

by Daniel Lawler Agence France Presse Paris, France (AFP) -- Dodging the kind of meteorite strike that forced Russia to…

3 years ago

Videographic illustrating the growing concern over space debris. Of the approximate 23,000 space objects in orbit, just 1,900 are active…

7 years ago

(AFP) -- Millions of pieces of man-made debris are currently orbiting the earth. This huge cloud of space junk is…

8 years ago