Satellites and space junk around Earth🌏
Satellites and space junk around Earth
While there are about 2,000 active satellites orbiting Earth at the moment, there are also 3,000 dead ones littering space. What's more, there are around 34,000 pieces of space junk bigger than 10 centimetres in size and millions of smaller pieces that could nonetheless prove disastrous if they hit something else.
#space#astrophysics#nasa #isro#earth#spacephysics#physicsforlife