Sentences with phrase «space debris cloud»
US lawmakers were incensed by a 2007 Chinese anti-satellite test that created the largest space debris cloud in history when it pulverized one of its own aging satellites.
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Earth is surrounded by a cloud of debris, both natural — such as micrometeorites and comet dust, which create meteor showers — and unnatural, including dead satellites and the cast - off detritus of space launches.
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.
Asteroid P / 2013 R3 is shattering into a cloud of debris in these images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
It sounds like a Comet exploded in nearby space, or on entry, and Earth then passed through a cloud of debris.
Set amid a cloud of centuries old space junk, players move from ship to ancient ship, frequently entering the void to recover valuable debris.
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.