5500 tons of space waste can fall to Earth

There are currently more than 9,000 pieces of cosmic "garbage", mostly fragments from satellite explosions, with a total volume of about 5,500 tons flying in the orbit of the Earth and can fall to Earth at any time. Come on.

This is a warning given by scientists of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA).

Scientists think the situation will be more serious in the coming years.

According to a NASA report published in the American Journal of Science on January 20, we don't currently have the technical and economic conditions to "clean up" the garbage, even if the industry World aeronautics stop launching new spacecraft.

The reason is that the "waste" pieces in the process of orbiting Earth, especially many pieces of spacecraft in the upper floors still full of fuel and high pressure liquid, are continuing to collide with each other and broken into smaller pieces.