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Have you everwondered about
space?
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Right now, thousands of spatial fragments goround the Earth: parts of space shuttles, satellitesout of order, fragmentscoming from collisions oreven some tools lost byastronauts …
Should we worry about what is happening in Space?
Fuente: Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich
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When moving at a speedfaster than 20,000 km anhour in space, even a small metallic piece of a few millimetres can seriously damage a satellite or even theInternational SpaceStation (ISS)
I think we should
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It is a joint project between five participatingspace agencies:
What´s the ISS Program?
NASARFSA
JAXAESA
CSA
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Let´s see what´shappened
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These are active satellites many years ago, when itall started.
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This is the Earth surrounded by active satellites nowadays.
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Is that all?No, it isn´t.
What about inactive satellites? Where are they?
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That´s it. Completely inactive satellites
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Amazing?
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A closer look
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And now some figures:
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End of the Story