Space problems are not always enough discussed. They are usually felt as something distant, as something that does not directly touch us, but it is not quite so. Thanks to events and conferences such as the International Space Conference <\/i>or the European Conference on Space Debris<\/i>, we have the opportunity to talk about the risks<\/b>\u00a0for\u00a0spatial activities and population. Can you even imagine it? Billions and billions of junk objects constantly orbiting around our planet. A layer beyond the atmosphere just made out of\u00a0garbage<\/b>.<\/p>\nWhy is Space junk so dangerous?<\/h2>\n
Experts from all over the world send the alarm<\/b>: \u00a0launcher fragments and former satellites threaten human activities, the good state of satellites and other instruments in use and most of all are dangerous for the astronauts<\/b> during their Space missions and the civil population due to spatial storms.<\/p>\n
The risk is real and urgent, as the recent ruin of the Russian satellite Blitz demonstrates: it\u00a0crushed into the fragments of a former Chinese satellite. There was also the failure of the launch of a Russian rocket that would set a satellite for telecommunications named Intelsat 27. It happened in 2013 and it went lost somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. All these things complicate the job of the astronauts and can compromise also our telecommunication systems, with all of its\u00a0consequences.\u00a0Not to underestimate.<\/p>\n
Here there is a short video from April 2017. It resumes the Space junk problem.<\/p>\n