Sentences with phrase «chunks of space junk»
A key advantage of an offshore anchorage is mobility; the entire station could be moved every few days to allow the ribbon to avoid large chunks of space junk.
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The debris clouds, initially distributed along the orbital paths of the satellites, are spreading to enshroud the entire planet, joining the roughly 19,000 large chunks of orbiting space junk (as seen in this image) already tracked by the Department of Defense.
Before long, we're trapped on Earth in the nightmare scenario: space is a no - go zone, made too dangerous to use for generations by countless chunks of junk.