And Britain’s ‘Daily Mail’ said on Monday that it’s hard to believe there is such a huge amount of man-made waste in Earth’s orbit.
What is most difficult to understand and believe is that this waste has become ticking time bombs in the sky, with its massive accumulation in low orbit around the Earth in less than 75 years.
And with one or more satellites launched daily, including thousands of satellites launched by billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, it looks like the governments and agencies involved will be more panicked than ever.
and show Interactive map The magnitude of the enormous problem facing the globe.
And the newspaper says it’s only going one way.
In anticipation of a further deterioration of the situation, countries operating in space seek to quickly formulate agreements in this regard, while emerging companies seek to devise intelligent solutions to eliminate all debris in space, including including satellites and probes that humans started launching since the fifties.
The map was designed by the company “LeoLabs”, which specializes in monitoring satellites and detecting collisions between them, and it shows space junk spinning above our heads.
The map provides many details, including:
The name of the missile. Its payload and volume of debris. Perigee and aphelion (the closest point to the Earth and the farthest point from it).
The company uses progressive array technology radars to monitor low Earth orbit and is spread over the following areas:
These radars allow the Californian company to monitor and measure everything that flies in its surveillance zone.
Most countries leave trash
The United States is the country that has left the most trash in Earth’s orbit, and this is not surprising, given the success of the American space agency “NASA” in launching rocket after rocket into the Earth’s orbit. space, in addition to the entry of the private sector represented by businessmen like Musk, the owner of “SpaceX”. On the way to space.
According to the company itself:
There are 8,497 pieces of US space waste that have expired and are no longer in use. There are 4,836 pieces of Russian space debris. There are 4047 Chinese space junk.
The European Space Agency estimates that there are more than 10,000 tons of space debris currently orbiting Earth.
Scientists have warned that congestion in Earth’s orbit could lead to the fall of this space equipment, which has expired.
They said there was a 10% chance of someone being injured or even killed as a result of old satellites and other damaged equipment falling on Earth in the next decade.
And the case has happened before, as debris from ancient spacecraft fell on parts of the Earth in the past year 2022, as happened in the US state of Montana and in India .
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