According to media reports, NASA’s Deputy Administrator and former Astronaut Colonel Palm Melroy has given his opinion on the incident. Speaking at an event in Colorado, USA, he said that it was a personally and a very shocking thing for all of us in NASA. He said that our timed satellite survived narrowly from colliding with Russia’s passive detective satellite.
He said that if the two satellites had collided with each other, small pieces of debris could have endured human life on the earth by traveling at a speed of 10,000 mph. He also talked about the damage caused by small things in space.
Significantly, Space Garbage has increased continuously in the past several years. Space agencies around the world are transporting their satellite into space, which become inactive after a certain time and keeps floating as garbage. Understand this in statistics, data up to 4 February 2022 shows that more than 7 thousand rockets of Russia are roaming in space as body waste.
America is second in the list. The US is increasing debris in space with 5,216 space waste pieces. China is the number in the list after America. China at number three has left 3,845 debris pieces into space, which can become a challenge for the future space missions. Japan and France are at number four and fifth respectively. Their 520 and 117 pieces of debris are increasing space waste.
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