Report says space debris past ‘tipping point,’ NASA needs to step up action

Space debris has passed the "tipping point," according to a report released Thursday by the National Research Council, which called on NASA to find ways to better monitor and clean up the orbiting junk threatening active satellites and manned spacecraft.

"We're going to have a lot more [debris] collisions, and at an increasingly frequent rate," said Don Kessler, a former NASA scientist who chaired the committee that prepared the report. The orbiting objects include ejected rockets and broken satellites.

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Paul Kane 01 Sep, 2011

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