There’s a lot of space debris caught within the Earth’s orbit. This
includes everything from dead satellites to rocket parts, and when two
pieces of debris collide, it can break up into even more, even smaller
pieces of space trash.
We’ve seen a few concepts for to deal with all this junk, including recycling the dead satellites or capturing them with a giant net, but we are practically blind as to where all this space trash is going. We covered Lockheed Martin’s plans to track space junk in the past, but the company just activated its prototype radar system that can monitor our entire sky and track more than 200,000 objects in orbit.
