Imposter stars, or quick flashes of light in the night sky, has been attributed to the increasing clump of space debris and active satellites in Earth's orbit.
Peter Beck, founder, and CEO of aerospace manufacturer Rocket Lab said that their company is starting to feel the effect of increasing congestion in outer space.
The International Space Station performs its third avoidance maneuver this year as a new piece of debris passes. Space junk is a growing problem as companies continue to launch new satellites into orbit without removing dead ones.
With over hundreds of thousands of floating space debris in space, Space Station and Satellite aviation is in constant peril with floating debris everywhere. If the condition is not addressed soon, Space travel will be very difficult if not impossible.
Fans of shoot-em-up sci fi everywhere will be thrilled with the latest proposal for freeing the International Space Station (ISS) from the need to repeatedly alter its trajectory to avoid crashing into space junk. Researchers from the Riken Computational Astrophysics Laboratory of Japan want to use a laser system to zap dangerous space debris on a collision course with the ISS.