At present, space debris weighing more than seven thousand tons is in the Earth's orbits, Roskosmos reported.
“If you collect all the space debris in orbits around the Earth, you get more than seven thousand tons, this is the weight of a loaded train of more than 70 cars,” the state corporation said in a telegram.
It is noted that every day the automated warning system for dangerous situations in near-earth space (ASPOS OKP) receives from three to ten messages about the approach of Russian spacecraft with potentially dangerous objects.
In June, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, advocated the creation of a unified international space debris monitoring system.
“It would be extremely important to move towards the creation of a single common system, a common MCC that could record all orbits, all incidents, and issue recommendations in advance that all participants in space activities would know about,” Rogozin said in his speech at the GLEX conference.
On June 5, Rogozin said that the creation of thousands of groups poses a threat to the ISS. “Roskosmos”, he said, proposes to oblige the creators of such satellite systems to bring spent vehicles from orbit.
“We want to understand who and what will launch, and whether the organizers of such orbital systems will be held responsible for de-orbiting their spacecraft after they have served their term,” added the head of Roscosmos.
