I appreciate the creative use of units here to call attention to a growing problem: The amount of junk in Earth orbit is now equivalent to 13 million adult cane toads. 🧪
@drspacejunk.bsky.socialSpace debris by the numbers:
The estimated weight is 13,486 tonnes, the equivalent of 13 million adult cane toads.
🧪 🔭 #SpaceJunk
theconversation.com
13,000 tonnes of space junk clutters Earth orbit. Here’s how it could be cleaned up
Properly addressing the problem of space requires work across three fronts: technology, policy and philosophy.
