Europe Plans to Monitor Space Junk

By Tim Hewison, posted on February 24th, 2009 in Earth Observation

Originally Published by Spiegel Online International

Billions of euros in sensitive equipment are orbiting Earth. And so is an increasing amount of dangerous debris. The European Space Agency is launching a concerted, and expensive, program to help keep track of space junk.

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