Space junk targeted for cleanup mission was hit by different space junk, making more space junkLaura Dobbersteinon August 23, 2023 at 05:31 The Register
Of all the spacecraft in all the orbits around the world, it slams into mine
On Tuesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that a decade-old piece of space junk it had targeted for removal in a future space debris cleanup has been whacked by another piece of stray kit, thereby increasing the amount of trash in orbit around Earth.…