Space junk targeted for cleanup mission was hit by different space junk, making more space junk

Of all the spacecraft in all the orbits around the world, it slams into mine

On Tuesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that a decade-old piece of space junk it had targeted for removal in a future space debris cleanup has been whacked by another piece of stray kit, thereby increasing the amount of trash in orbit around Earth.…

Author: Laura Dobberstein. [Source Link (*), The Register]

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