When the movie Gravity — now streaming on HBO Max — came out in 2013, ... This created thousands of space debris pieces that “push us just that far, ...

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In fact, a 23-ton piece of space debris from a Chinese rocket that unexpectedly broke apart "fell — safely, thankfully — into the south-central Pacific Ocean" in November, she adds, and ...

Space junk in numbers. 2,000 active satellites in Earth's orbit. 3,000 dead satellites in Earth's orbit. 34,000 pieces of space junk larger than 10 centimetres. 128 million pieces of space junk larger ...

Donald Kessler on Space Junk's Risks and Possible Solutions. Special | 6m 35s Video has Closed Captions | CC. There is so much "space junk" in orbit, and it may jeopardize future launches and lives.

NASA has a plan to clean up space junk—but is going ... the risks to the International Space Station and the astronauts aboard it—risks that were dramatized by the 2013 movie Gravity, ...

Sandra Bullock's Dr. Ryan Stone faces various threats while returning to Earth in 2013's Gravity, but the movie's debris is the most compelling.

The 2013 movie “Gravity” brought the idea of Kessler Syndrome to the big screen: ... “The analogy that I like to think about space debris is plastic in the oceans,” he said.

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