Orbiting Space Junk News Today

Well, we have a lot of trash here on earth. apparently, we do in space, as well. look at that. the european space agency wants to clean up decades of orbiting space junk. its from things like dead satellites and discarded rockets. the agency plans to send a multiarmed robot into space in 2025 to latch on to the debris. then the machine and its trash will dive back to earth and burn up in the atmosphere. there are about, get this, 170 million pieces of junk in earth orbit right now. but no intern...

Jon: russian spacecraft successfully docking with the international space station. >> we have preliminary booster ignition. jon: the launch of the soyuz spacecraft earlier today called flawless. the three-man crew joining two russians and an american who have been at the station since march. but it is becoming a dirtier and more dangerous job up there. take a look at this image. it captures the massive amount of space junk thats orbiting around our planet and it poses a real danger. joining us n...

Degrees north and 57 degrees south. thats essentially between new finland and argentina. and that means that only the 1,000 people or so who live innant arcty ka are absolutely safe. the odds of getting hit by space debris since 75% of the earth is covered by water, nasa says the chances are 1 in 3200 some human somewhere will be hit. with 7 billion humans on the planet the chance youll be hit is 1 in 21 trillion. the chance youll get hit by lightning this year, 1 in 1 million. the biggest piece...

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