New footage of debris from an Atlas V Centaur rocket's upper stage soaring through space nearly ten years after its launch has highlighted the ever-growing concerns over space junk. The researchers hope to use the event to model how space junk operates around Earth's orbit. After India's recent test of an anti-satellite missile, NASA criticized the country's for creating hundreds of new pieces of space junk which threatens to damage the International Space Station. The U.S. has let loose the most space junk, followed by Russia and China. No matter what the solution is, researchers say mitigating the Earth's shroud of space junk will likely be an international effort.

Source: Daily Mail April 12, 2019 16:26 UTC