shadowstalker
9th September 2011, 23:19
Junk yard in space: UARS is one of the thousands of objects in Earth orbit being tracked by Nasa, as shown by this computer graphic
But now it’s one of 370,000 pieces of junk floating in space at speeds of up to 22,000mph.
The volume of debris was greatly increased by a 2007 Chinese anti-satellite weapon test and a 2009 crash-in-orbit of two satellites.
The widely criticised Chinese test used a missile to smash an aging weather satellite into 150,000 pieces of 1cm debris and 3,118 pieces can be tracked by radar on the ground.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2035455/Six-ton-UARS-satellite-plummet-Earth-month.html#ixzz1XV59LcrX
This not counting ALL the satellites that MOST of the countries sent up in the past 50 years
But now it’s one of 370,000 pieces of junk floating in space at speeds of up to 22,000mph.
The volume of debris was greatly increased by a 2007 Chinese anti-satellite weapon test and a 2009 crash-in-orbit of two satellites.
The widely criticised Chinese test used a missile to smash an aging weather satellite into 150,000 pieces of 1cm debris and 3,118 pieces can be tracked by radar on the ground.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2035455/Six-ton-UARS-satellite-plummet-Earth-month.html#ixzz1XV59LcrX
This not counting ALL the satellites that MOST of the countries sent up in the past 50 years