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the litter humanity left in orbit while getting to the good part.
means defunct satellites, spent rocket stages, and shrapnel from collisions, all still circling earth at bullet speed.
from began with sputnik's spent rocket stage in 1957; every launch since has added another piece nobody plans to clean up.
orbital speedtravels around 28000 km per hour
tracked objectsover 30000 pieces bigger than a softball
kessler syndrometheory that collisions cascade into more collisions
paint fleck damagea fleck once chipped a shuttle window