Spacedebris (also known as space junk, space pollution, space waste, space trash, space garbage, or cosmic debris) are defunct human-made objects in space –
Earth. Spacedebris may also consist of natural components such as chunks of rock and ice. The problem of spacedebris has grown as various space programs
: II-238 During the design process of the Space Shuttle, a requirement of the ET was that it would not release any debris that could potentially damage the orbiter
due to space pollution is numerous enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade in which each collision generates spacedebris that increases