The collision highlights the space junk problem that threatens our use of space.
In January this year, a dead Soviet spy satellite and a used Soviet rocket stagein a cluttered region about 600 miles above Earth. A full-on collision between those two objects would have spawned thousands of new dangerous pieces of debris.
Researchers don't know and will likely never learn what caused the Kosmos fragmentation reported on Wednesday, Aug. 30, by McDowell. Earth-based radars only track objects larger than 4 inches . About 34,550 such objects are currently known to exist in Earth's orbits,But in addition to those"visible" space debris fragments, some 1 million debris objects 0.4 to 4 inches in size and 130 million fragments smaller than 0.
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