This has happened before after Moscow made a mess with a missile
Astronauts on the International Space Station were told to duck and cover on Thursday after a Russian satellite broke up.as capable of handling jobs like observing natural resources, monitoring emergencies caused by natural disasters, or supporting construction projects for highways, railways, and pipelines.
The 6,500kg sat was expected to go about its business for five years, but lasted over eight before some systems failed and Russia decommissioned it in December 2021. Space Command confirmed that the next day – adding that the incident produced"over 100 pieces of trackable debris." All that junk appeared in an orbit worryingly close to that occupied by the International Space Station, concerning NASA enough that the nine astronauts aboard the orbiting lab were told to shelter for around an hour.Japan's space agency helps to target advertising with satellite photos of cropsThat incident created 1,500 pieces of junk.
Several space agencies and private operators are therefore trying to clean up space junk. One such effort – conducted by Japan's JAXA and a private outfit called Astroscale – recentlyits ability to approach a target satellite. Astroscale debuted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after that demo, at ¥1,400 but has since deorbited slightly to trade at around ¥1,000 .
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