Space debris crisis: the national security threat we’re ignoring

Published on May 13, 2025
Computer-generated image of objects in Earth orbit that are currently being tracked. Credit: NASA

Today, Earth’s orbits carry over 100 million debris objects, which have already resulted in nearly 400 debris-generating events, according to NASA. In the last six months alone, space debris has crashed into Poland, near Turks and Caicos, […]

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