Which countries do the most littering in space?

2017-10-22 14:31

Which countries do the most littering in space?
Litter all space powers, but some more than others.

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Space debris — spent a term satellites, separated parts of rockets and lost astronaut tools fly around the Earth faster than a bullet, and risk applicable to orbital vehicles, reports Rus.Media. Litter all space powers, but some more than others.

The portal Space-Track.org published statistics of space debris. Tabular data can be accessed on the website. More than anything in the orbit of Russian (Soviet) of objects is more than 6500. But from space debris, Russia is not a leader: it is the wreckage of the spacecraft around the Earth 3961 (at least those large enough to track them from the Ground), and the U.S. — four thousand. The Chinese space program is younger and Soviet and American, but the number of unnecessary orbital launches by the Chinese, has already reached 3475. Most of them were formed in the tests of 2007, when the Chinese military tested antiseptikov system and destroyed its own satellite.