Just before , a US Air Force weather satellite shattered into 50 pieces: one of about four recent 'fragmentation' events in orbit that have experts raising the alarm about '.'
Named after American astrophysicist Donald Kessler — who first warned of its risks in Kessler Syndrome basically describes , in which hardware smashing into each other in orbit creates runaway destruction.
Bits of broken satellites, the remains of booster rockets, wreckage from weapons tests and even objects as simple as a loose screw off a space capsule all contribute to the over 130 million estimated pieces of space junk now orbiting Earth.
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