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China Tops the ORBITAL GARBAGE HEAP. Control Needed ? Who’s the biggest space polluter on the planet? Why that would be China, a relative newcomer to the space age, which now tops the list of countries contributing to space debris, according to a study by the Russian space agency, Roscosmos.
You would not imagine that China accounts for 40 percent of the space debris, followed by the United States 27.5 and Russia 25.5.
How did it get to that Position? Interestingly, China Military are responsible for this leap as far back as 2007 the deliberately destroyed a defunct weather satellite to test a missile. This explosion created more than 2800 pieces of free-flying shrapnel.
For you information it will be nice to know that in all, there are more than 10,000 dead spacecraft, rocket bodies and others that has constituted the space age action circling our planet earth. Well most governments are aware of this but action has not been so effective in limiting the way we can pollute our space environment. ~Some efforts are now in place where laser systems are used to monitor space junks
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