The Joint Space Operations Center in California is currently tracking about 23,000 objects in orbit—including live satellites, derelict rocket parts, decommissioned spacecraft and wreckage.

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DARC is designed to track multiple small moving objects in geosynchronous orbit — all around the globe, 24 hours a day.

The agency is tracking about 47,200 objects in orbit representing a 14 % increase since the end of 2021, and twice the amount in 2016.

This is one of those problems where you have a number of commercial and national actors who all get benefit from placing objects up in orbit, up in space.

Then there is the space junk — nearly 30,000 objects bigger than a softball hurtling a few hundred miles above Earth, ten times faster than a bullet.

Four days after launching on its third-ever mission, China's mysterious Shenlong robotic space plane has apparently deployed 6 unknown objects in orbit. Some of them appear to be emitting signals.

Then there is the space junk — nearly 30,000 objects bigger than a softball hurtling a few hundred miles above Earth, ten times faster than a bullet.