KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -According to the ESA, since 1961 there have been more than 560 fragmentation incidents, most of them caused by fuel explosions in rocket stages.

Detailed explanation-2: -There’s a lot of space junk up there orbiting the planet, but what effect is it having? There is no direct effect, although the density of space debris is now so great that astronomical observations are often degraded by it. The main problem is that of collisions with operational spacecraft.