Have you everwondered about

space?

Right now, thousands of spatial fragments goround the Earth: parts of space shuttles, satellitesout of order, fragmentscoming from collisions oreven some tools lost byastronauts …

Should we worry about what is happening in Space?

Fuente: Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich

When moving at a speedfaster than 20,000 km anhour in space, even a small metallic piece of a few millimetres can seriously damage a satellite or even theInternational SpaceStation (ISS)

I think we should

It is a joint project between five participatingspace agencies:

What´s the ISS Program?

NASARFSA

JAXAESA

CSA

Let´s see what´shappened

These are active satellites many years ago, when itall started.

This is the Earth surrounded by active satellites nowadays.

Is that all?No, it isn´t.

What about inactive satellites? Where are they?

That´s it. Completely inactive satellites

Amazing?

A closer look

And now some figures:

End of the Story