Some satellitesare crashing into each other and they are getting smashed into little pieces or some are staying kind of big which is making space junk oralso called space debris. After the crash that satellite'spieces go spinning off in space.
Until 1957, the only thing orbiting Earth was the Moon. But on October 4 of that year, the Soviet Union launched a rocket that placed a satellite named Sputnik in orbit. That launch started a space race between the Soviet Union and the United States. Over the years, those two nations put more than 4,000 satellites into orbit. Today, many nations and private companies put satellites in space.
We may not be able to have near earth shuttle flights because they may be too dangerous. Much of theSpace Junkis falling through the atmosphere to Earth's surface.
Space junkmight cause collisionsso that space travel will become hazardous in the future. The amount of energy in a small screw traveling at 7 miles per second would cause a massive amount of damage when it collides, an example is when a retired satellite, collided with an active satellite, resulting in the destruction of both spacecrafts. NASA reported that a large amount of space junk was produced by the collision. If this continues many more satellites may be destroyed in a cascadeeffect resulting in a disruption in communications in low earth orbit also bits of satellite may land.
