Labels:text | screenshot OCR: SPACE DEBRIS SPACE TECHNOLOGY EACH TIME A ROCKET is launched, more garbage joins the debris in Earth orbit and the risk of future craft suffering collisions increases. Orbital debris includes discarded satellites and fragments of satellites that have disintegrated. Debris in near-Earth orbit falls back into the atmosphere. Smaller pieces burn up, but larger pieces can fall back to Earth, as parts of the Skylab space station did in 1979. Farther from the Earth, debris CAUSING A CRATER stays in orbit for many years - it is thought that Tiny pieces of debris can satellites in geostationary orbit could remain damage a spacecraft. there for up to a million years. About 7,000 A speck of paint may orbiting objects are tracked by radar and fewer have made a 4-mm than 400 of these are working satel ...
