The European Space Agency (ESA) said today that the possibility that a ship be stranded in orbit after colliding with a piece of space debris, as shown in "Gravity", the next film by Alfonso Cuaron, "might happen" if waste levels continue to rise.
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ESA said in a statement that the over six thousand satellites launched since
the beginning of the space age, less than a thousand remain operational while
the rest have re-entered the atmosphere or in orbit is abandoned.
