Watching out for space debris
APR 20, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023265
BBC : On 10 February this year, a defunct Russian communications satellite crashed into an American commercial spacecraft, generating thousands of pieces of orbiting debris.
At the time, some observers put the odds of such an event occurring at millions, maybe billions, to one.
But experts had been warning for years that useable space was becoming crowded, boosting the possibility of a serious collision
© 2009 American Institute of Physics
