Sentences with phrase «falling space junk»

So That's What Happened to UARS An old stalwart of NASA's Earth - observing fleet, the six - ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), came tumbling through the atmosphere in an uncontrolled reentry in late - September that generated a slew of headlines about the risks of being struck by falling space junk.

Nobody has ever been injured by falling space junk, nor has any significant property damage ever occurred.

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A September report by the National Research Council found that the debris field is so dense that collisions between objects in orbit will create additional debris faster than space junk falls out of orbit.

HAS space junk been falling on Holland?

Other scenarios the team explored include artificial rings of space debris, revealing a civilisation that has fallen victim to a Gravity - like space junk cascade on a grand scale, or the total destruction of the planet.

Space agencies continue to monitor the debris as new objects are added every few days (from launches, collisions, and explosions) and old junk falls back through the atmosphere, which happens about once a day.

The slowed - down space junk will fall into lower and lower orbits until burning up harmlessly in Earth's atmosphere.

This really is space junk: Russian space experts examine 200 - kilo metal «UFO dustbin lid» which fell from the sky in Siberia.

The «land of the lost» is a kind of cosmic depot where random bits of junk — an ice - cream truck, a motel pool — fall through a time - space portal to be, in essence, played with by the movie's heroes.

The idea is to sent rockets loaded up with water into space, release it, and create a wall of water that orbiting junk would bump into, slow down, and fall out of orbit.