This computer-generated image released by the European Space Agency on Tuesday shows trackable objects in orbit around Earth. More than 12,000 objects are monitored in orbit, 11,500 of them in low-Earth orbit – at an altitude of between 800 and 1,500 kilometres – where there are many commercial, military, scientific and navigational satellites. Another 1,147 are in geostationary orbit, about satellite orbits in the direction of the Earth's rotation, at an altitude of approximately 35,786 kilometres, where telecommunications satellites are typically deployed.
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6 comments:
whoa. i would like to see a timelapse video of the past 60 years from that angle...
Yucky.
space pollution.
Litterbugs.
Just more traffic. And it's not going to decongest anytime soon.
egad.
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