ESA alarmed about the environmental impact of space debris

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.

The 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.

‘LAKE CHEKO’ IS THE IMPACT CRATER OF EVENT

They claim that Lake Cheko is the impact crater in the Tunguska Event. The observation by the team of Lake Cheko. Crà © dito: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. / In the early hours of the MAA ± ana of June 30, 1908, occurred ³ a huge explosion in a remote part of Siberia near the Stony Tunguska River. So great was the explosion that knocks down trees ³ à ³ n in a circular patra s more than 2,000 km ³ ^ 2 and illuminates the sky from parts of Asia to Great Britain ± a. What causes this explosion ³ n has never been firmly resolved. The majority of researchers agree this was the result of a comet or meteoroid, with most leaning toward the former because of the lack of both an impact crater as a meteoroid fragments.