NASA drew up a map of space debris in orbit

In orbit, there are about 19 thousand pieces of debris over a length of 10 cm each. Such information is contained in the report was circulated on Saturday, NASA's level of "contamination" of space, which is supplemented by a schematic map of the location of these predmetov.Pri an inventory of objects were used recent data from space station observations and reports compiled by the Office for orbital debris NASA.Podgotovlennaya map looks daunting, but, as assured by NASA, the situation is not as bad as it seems, even though every year there is a new on-orbit space debris. "Collisions between large objects are extremely rare. The orbit of each of the fragments are well known - they said. - If any of them will be on the way the current satellite NASA mission control center experts will be able to change the trajectory of the satellite, so it was not in danger. "As ITAR-TASS news agency, certain actions to ensure that the spacecraft did not face with junk NASA has taken on a regular basis. So, last week the shuttle "Discovery" after the flight to the International Space Station had to swerve to avoid encounter with debris. A very close to the ISS flying piece of European launcher. The course of the orbital complex, however, did not have to change, because a fragment covering about 18 square. meter was located about 3 km from the station.