Earth’s orbit is swarming with debris — meet the satellite designed to clean it up
At any given time , NASA is keeping cart track of about 16,000 pieces of space junk in Earth ’s orbit — and those are just the big chunks . This debris poses a serious safety machine hazard , primarily to in operation satellites in the satellite ’s orbit , but also to astronauts like those on display board the ISS . In fact , according to some NASA manakin , the amount of poop orbiting our planetmay be reaching a dangerous tipping item — one that could make blank space traveling prohibitively risky ....