The International Space Station fired its thrusters to avoid incoming space junk yet again, a worrying sign the problem is getting worse.
. These maneuvers have only become more frequent as more satellites and other payloads are sent into orbit, many of which are doomed to keep circling the Earth long after they're decommissioned.tracking an area of 30 by 30 miles
, with the station in the center. Any tracked space debris that comes within this range can trigger a course correction. With an increasingly littered orbit, space agencies are starting to turn to possible solutions. For instance, the European Space Agency recently launched its ClearSpace-1 mission, a spacecraft that's designed to claw onto space debris to dispose of it.
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