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From spent rockets to dead satellites, the sheer volume of space junk is huge. A map by California-based satellite monitoring and collision detection firm LeoLabs reveals the scale of the problem.
Scientists have warned there is a 10 per cent chance that a person could be struck and killed by a falling spacecraft or spent rocket booster within the next decade.
The European Space Agency estimates there is more than 10,800 tonnes of space junk currently orbiting the Earth. MailOnline takes a look at the biggest debris and when it could come down.
Space travel is filled with bonkers numbers that make life on Earth feel meaningless. Nowhere is that more apparent than the size of rocket engines.
The ban will be in effect until the end of the war in Ukraine.