The space race heats up: all the news on the latest rocket launches
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A look into the rise of falling space junk.
This report from The New York Times details how debris from rockets, satellites, and other space hardware falls to Earth each week — sometimes unpredictably — as the global space race heats up:
If objects are in free fall, even the best rocket scientists cannot accurately predict where they will land or whether they will fully incinerate. A one-minute error in predicting re-entry changes the landing zone by nearly 300 miles, according to the Aerospace Corporation, a nonprofit research group.
A Ton of Space Junk Tumbles Unpredictably to Earth Every Week
[The New York Times]
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