Last month, a half-tonne piece of space debris fell in a small village in Kenya, identified by the Kenya Space Agency as a separation ring from a rocket.
The phenomenon of space junk is alarming, especially as active satellites make up only 8% of the 56,450 tracked objects in orbit. The rest is debris.
The Kessler syndrome raises concerns about the cascade effect from collisions in orbit, intensifying risks as evidence mounts from over 560 fragmentation events since 1961.
With incidents such as space junk crashing in populated areas and ongoing accumulation of debris, the question of responsibility may lead to important legal precedents.
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