This UK study calculated the risk of being killed by space junk—and chances are increasing - ThePrint

7/31/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 9 months ago
by Monica Grady
by Monica Grady
The study estimated that rocket bodies are three times more likely to land at the latitudes of Indonesia and Bangladesh than in the US, China, or Russia.
The chance of someone being killed by space junk falling from the sky may seem ridiculously tiny. After all, nobody has yet died from such an accident, though there have been instances of injury and … [+5763 chars]
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