From orbit to junkyard: For over 50 years we’ve been rocketing more and more objects
into low Earth orbit. That could soon turn another environment into an unusable junkyard of space waste. With increasing reliance on satellites, outer space needs urgent attention and cleanup solutions.

Credits:
Reporter: Amelia Hemphill
Video Editor: Markus Mörtz
Supervising Editor: Michael Trobridge

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Read more:

Basic information on space debris by the European Space Agency
https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Spac...

European Space Agency on the socio-economic impacts of too much space debris
https://conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/p...

Study on threats and removal techniques of space debris
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery...

Photography series of space debris
https://www.newscientist.com/article/...

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:54 Why space junk is dangerous
02:35 Ingenious solutions
04:35 How to de-orbit
07:16 Challenges
09:13 Conclusion