Scientists in China planning to destroy space debris with an orbit-based laser station.
They published a paper explaining how a space-based laser station would impact its ability to remove the junk.
Experts estimate that since 1957, there are around 500,000 ‘space junk’ fragments of old satellites, rockets and other debris
They move at a speed of 17,500 miles per hour above us.
Top image, a computer-generated image representing space debris as could be seen from high Earth orbit. The two main debris fields are the ring of objects in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) and the cloud of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO).
via gizmodo
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