Earth to Have Saturn's 'Rings' as Space Junk Continues to Pile Up

Russia has recently confirmed to carry out a direct-ascending anti-satellite missile operation that destroyed Cosmos 1408, a more than 2-ton Tselina-D espionage satellite placed into orbit in 1982.

How do we persuade humanity to embrace space stewardship as if our lives depended on it, Jah wonders? With a growing number of commerce-producing satellite networks, space debris will undoubtedly become a long-term, vexing problem.

"Space is a global resource," says US Space Commission Commissioner Nathan Simington. In a statement, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) stated. "However, we do know at least one thing: orbital debris fields represent an existential danger," making space exploration more complicated.

"No one owns space, and no one should make it harder to use on purpose," Simington added. "I join my colleagues from throughout the US government in denouncing Russia's reckless and debris-producing destruction of a satellite."

We did not create the orbital debris problem overnight, and we will not repair it overnight, either, according to T.S. Kelso of CelesTrak, a top space debris specialist.

"Like any other environmental issue, addressing the problem will need all of us working together devotedly; we should not be immobilized by indecision in our search for the right answer," Kelso told Space.com.

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