'Worst-Case Scenario' Space Junk Collision Barely Avoided
Low-Earth orbit – home to satellites, spacecraft and the International Space Station – is full of debris. In a series of tweets last week, space debris tracking companyLeoLabs laid out what happened. “Too close for comfort,” LeoLabs tweeted. A collision could have created thousands of new fragments. More debris means more chances of future collisions in orbit. See also… The ISS and functioning satellites and spacecraft stand a chance of moving out of the way of hazardous objects....