ESA Will Begin to Monitor Space Debris

On Monday, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that it planned to set up a $64-million space program, designed to monitor space debris and their orbit, so as to avoid other accidents such as the one on February 10th, when an American and a Russian satellite crashed into each other in Ea... [ read more >> ]

An estimative representation of the number of artificial objects orbiting the Earth - over 13,000 in all

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An estimative representation of the number of artificial objects orbiting the Earth - over 13,000 in all