These are the Most Concerning Pieces of Space Debris

These are the Most Concerning Pieces of Space Debris
By Mark Thompson (https://ift.tt/Ys7qeb9)

There are tens of thousands of pieces of space debris hurling around the Earth right now. Since it can cost tens of millions of dollars to remove just a single piece of space debris, which are the ones that we should be most concerned with? A few years ago, 11 teams of experts came together to rank the 50 most concerning pieces of debris, the ones that they think would be the highest priority. Although they used different approaches, 20-40% of the objects ended up on several experts' lists.

July 13, 2025 at 02:56AM
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