Thanks to cheaper rockets and technological advances, space has never been more accessible, but the increasing amount of space debris poses serious risks to ongoing missions.
Historically, we haven't been good at retrieving objects from space, and as new objects increase, so does the risk of collisions with space junk.
In 1978, NASA scientists hypothesized that a chain reaction of collisions could lead to Kessler Syndrome, where we lose access to orbital space due to excessive debris.
NASA and the US Space Force track larger debris in low Earth orbit, but the growing amount of small pieces makes it more difficult to manage the problem.
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