By Andrea Shalal-Esa – Greg Schulte, deputy assistant secretary of defense for space policy, said in an interview on Wednesday (June 6, 2012) that it made sense for countries to work together in space given tight defense budgets and the increasingly congested and contested nature of space.
The growing amount of space debris is also fostering cooperation in space. The U.S. Air Force is tracking 1,100 active satellites, plus 21,000 pieces of debris, about 14 percent of which stem from China destroying one of its weather satellites in 2007. Even small pieces of fast-traveling debris can damage or destroy spacecraft and the International Space Station, which is about 240 miles above Earth. more> http://tinyurl.com/boc446h
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