Name: Space Junk Dangers
Uploaded: 2019-01-01
Duration: 8 min 44 s
Description: A ballistic missile test by India recently shot down one of its own communications satellites. With over 900,000 pieces of debris currently orbiting planet Earth, space trash has become a very real threat to ongoing missions.

A ballistic missile test by India recently shot down one of its own communications satellites. With over 900,000 pieces of debris currently orbiting planet Earth, space trash has become a very real threat to ongoing missions.

This episode examines how anti-satellite missile tests and decades of defunct hardware have turned orbit into a growing hazard. Through expert analysis and stark examples, you will see why even tiny fragments can endanger satellites and astronauts, and how each new breakup raises the stakes for spaceflight. Sign up to watch a timely look at the fragile environment above our planet.

Above Earth, a hidden storm of debris threatens every mission.

Space Junk Dangers

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