China Heightens SPACE JUNK FEARS
A Chinese missle test last Jan has added more than 1,500 big scraps of debris to an ever increasing junkyard in orbit. Odds are that it's only a matter of time before a weather sattellite or the ISS slams into a pieces of rubbish "THE breakup of the Fengyun -1C is by far the most severe satellite breakup ever in terms of identified debris" sezs Nicholas I. Johnson chief scientist for orbital debris as the JSC.....
Time to do a little LEO house cleaning............