ixty-six years ago, there was a single human-built object in earth orbit: Sputnik, the world’s first satellite. Today, there are 100 trillion objects circling the planet. That’s the jaw-dropping number cited by international researchers in an open calling for a global treaty to curb the ever-growing debris belt in low-earth orbit.
Scientists sound the alarm over a growing trash problem in space
Mar 17, 2023
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