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Space junk is becoming a massive problem as satellites disintegrate, with 4300 tonnes now orbiting Earth

- October 24, 2024 4 MIN READ

A large communications satellite has broken up in orbit, affecting users in Europe, Central Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, and adding to the growing swarm of space junk clouding our planet’s neighbourhood. The Intelsat 33e satellite provided broadband communication from a point some 35,000km above the Indian Ocean, in a geostationary orbit around… Read more »