Sentences with phrase «lasting space debris»

Not exact matches

Today debris threatens hundreds of spacecraft and satellites; in fact, last June a space - station crew scrambled into a Soyuz escape capsule because of passing trash.

Whatever the real reason for the dramatic missile shot, the good news, I guess, is that the Pentagon didn't destroy the satellite in high orbit, as China did with another such move last year, generating an expanding cloud of orbiting debris — the one kind of pollution that, in space, may someday greatly limit the ability to deploy more satellites, for good or ill.