Close approaches are likely to become more regular (Image: NASA)
A BURGEONING blizzard of space debris is going to have a major impact on the future economics of space flight.
That was the prediction made this week by of the University of Southampton, UK, at the in Manchester. His projections indicate that the number of close encounters between objects in orbit will rise 50 per cent in the next decade, and quadruple by 2059. Countermeasures will add greatly to the cost of future missions.
Ever since the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 in…
