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Space Station's robotic arm hit by orbital debris

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A recent inspection of the the International Space Station's Canadarm2 has revealed that it was hit by orbital debris. See the hole that was created and a time-lapse of the robotic arm in action. Snagging a Spacecraft with the Canadarm2:


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And here we see again the danger of space debris. Luckily, it didn't lead to a cascade effect. This is proof that we have to deal with space debris in order to prevent the cascade effect and the danger it can cause for some smacecrafts and space missions
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A huge amount of space debris is being launched frequently. I saw trains of them the past few nights.
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Lots of space debris is up there in orbit. Going to cause lots of problems in the future.
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Fortunately, this time-space debris that hit ISS was not so large. I know that some large parts of space debris are tracked by some British aerospace companiesin order to avoid collisions with satellites or other spacecrafts. There are currently 160 million items in orbit, the majority of which is space debris, which has the potential to crash into satellites that are imperative to everyday life on Earth.
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I have seen some proposals of way to do some clean up, but don't know how effective it could be.
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I don't believe there is enough cooperation and coordination governing when and what goes into orbit. We have some general agreements but as I understand it countries can almost do as they wish. At least new craft are to have an end of life plan. Either de-orbit or moved to a higher parking orbit.
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