Lost in space junk

We cannot continue on a ‘business as usual’ basis to create unacceptable amounts of additional debris to the point where we create irreversible damage. — Andrew Mason/UTS Journalism

THEY say what goes up must come down. When it comes to space, however, this expression doesn’t ring so true with space debris now reaching crisis proportions.

In fact, there are currently around 28,600 debris objects tracked by space surveillance networks and many more objects not able to be tracked at all.