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Kessler Syndrome: Space Junk Danger

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What is Kessler Syndrome? Experts warn of 'imminent danger' to society

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US Air Force weather satellite shattered into 50 pieces just before Christmas , one of four recent 'fragmentation' events in orbit.

Kessler Syndrome describes a 'space junk' chain reaction, in which hardware smashing into each other in orbit creates runaway destruction.

Only 650 major collision accidents have been reported since 1957 , but 'the number of objects in space that we have launched in the last four years has increased exponentially' 'We are heading towards the situation that we are always dreading,' says a planetary scientist.

Last year , ex-NASA physicist Sierra Solter-Hunt warned that metallic debris fields from cheap satellite 'megaconstellations' like Elon Musk's Starlink could disrupt Earth 's magnetosphere exposing all life to deadly cosmic rays.

The results would be apocalyptic, leading Earth to the kind of 'atmospheric stripping' that turned ancient Mars and Mercury into the lifeless wastelands they are today .

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