Not much space in space
See all those blue lines around the earth? They are the orbits of the remains of a collision between two satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 in 2009. You can track the parts on stuff in space.
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See all those blue lines around the earth? They are the orbits of the remains of a collision between two satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 in 2009. You can track the parts on stuff in space.