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European Space Agency recently released by the ground control center computer-simulated images showing that the “space junk” has been over for the Earth has become a rubbish dump. According to the statement of professional rocket scientists, they are “orbital debris”, but most people have “space junk.”

Space junk increasingly becoming a problem facing humanity. 51 years ago the first spacecraft launched into space - the first Soviet satellite. The past half a century, we have become a space garbage dump inside filled with numerous fragments. Here, hundreds of satellites, an international space station, a space telescope, a large number of planetary probe is running.

The spacecraft will drop into the atmosphere ashes, there are millions of space debris from the ground in the 20,000 miles of wandering around the geostationary orbit has failed to disperse. These debris, including a discarded spacecraft and abandoned satellites, rockets overpack, collision during docking and the metal, nuts and bolts, carelessly discarded tools, as well as manned spaceship dropped from the astronauts excretion.

Space junk has been attach such importance, because they are a serious threat to the safety of spacecraft and astronauts. Paint in a small space flight speed can reach tens of thousands of miles per hour, hit once on the International Space Station, they can easily shell left dent in the space station, or even to hit the glass cracked.

Fortunately, the spacecraft is equipped with modern Fanghubing can make half-inch in diameter to hit objects in the direction of deflection. In addition, the immense vastness of space, the space between the space junk great, the possibility of minimal impact. However, experts pointed out that such tragedies still occur is a matter of time. Sadly, remove space junk than the removal of the garbage on the planet is much more difficult