Since the Soviet Union launched the first satellite in human history, "Sputnik" in 1957, space orbits around the Earth have become a hotbed for more than 5,000 spacecraft orbiting. Despite the significant growth in space navigation, one collision was documented between two satellites, an Iridium communications satellite with a Russian spy satellite, "Cosmos", and the accident occurred at an altitude of 500 km from Earth, over the Siberian region 10 years ago .

Currently, the risk of collisions in space increases rapidly.

Over the next 10 years, tens of thousands of new satellites will join the space, in the direction of many billionaires, such as Elon Musk, founder of the American electric car manufacturer Tesla, and Jeff Bezo, founder of the e-commerce company "Amazon", and Richard Branson, founder of a group "Virgin Group", towards the establishment of space facilities for use in providing Internet services. What increases the gravity of the situation are the huge amounts of debris scattered in space, such as the remnants of old space missiles and satellites that have left the service, and the sharp parts caused by the crash of the Iridium and Cosmos, which will continue to circulate in the air for decades, which represents a danger Growing.

The US Air Force is tracking more than 20,000 pieces of space vehicle debris orbiting, and the number is increasing rapidly. Satellite insurance companies say the probability of a collision between the satellites has risen from one in a million to one in every 10,000 over the past two decades.

There are no clear rules for organizing outer space, and only the owners of satellites are obligated to place them in orbits that do not affect the communications signals of other satellites. And if there is any change in the path of a spacecraft, the matter is easily monitored by space experts, but there is no central body that monitors movement in space orbits.

And the increased risks faced by the satellites, led to a boom in insurance activity on these satellites.

The US military is conducting tests on the so-called "space fence", which is a radar system to monitor debris in space orbits. It is located on the Pacific island of Kwajalein Atoll, and uses the latest technologies available to track more than 200,000 objects orbiting in space.

In 2002, about 10 countries agreed to set rules for what is known as "termination of life", to compel the owners of satellites to provide a sufficient amount of fuel in the satellite sufficient to remove it from its orbit into deep space, or direct it towards the Earth's atmosphere in order to burn inside it, including It's like "euthanasia." Without the use of this medium, an artificial satellite or spacecraft will end up spinning around the Earth without control, as happened with the European Space Agency's "Envisat" vehicle, which has been out of control since 2012, to pose a threat to satellites and space vehicles for the next 150 years. at least.

One of the proposed solutions to solve the problem of the accumulation of stray debris and satellites in space is the use of a spacecraft equipped with automatic arms, grids or bayonets to pull such stray moons out of their orbits, but the matter involves difficulty because these objects are in a state of rotation often, and therefore attracting them to The cleaning vessel may turn it into out of control objects.

NASA says a piece of debris no larger than four inches is equivalent to when it collides with a 15-pound spacecraft of highly explosive TNT, that is, enough to convert the spacecraft into thousands of parts.

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Countries that have agreed to rules such as "euthanasia," require the owners of satellites to provide a sufficient amount of fuel in the satellites enough to burn themselves.

- The US Air Force tracks more than 20,000

A piece of space vehicle debris orbiting the Earth.

- Insurance companies:

Possible collision

Among the moons rose from

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