“That report found a total of almost 20,000 pieces of space junk....”
Really amazing that they can keep track of it all. But I bet the guy still heads out to NASA (or wherever) in the morning and says “Hey Honey!? Have you seen my car keys?”
It would be justice if it were hit by a comet.
*ping*
8000 pounds divided by 20,000 tracked pieces of junk, less than 1/2 pound average, so while half are larger some are much smaller...
And we have been doing this for decades.
IMHO, given we have had missile defense systems in design for almost 60 years now (Nike Zeus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_Zeus) and ABM treaty has been withdrawn for over a decade now....I wonder...