By Harry Miller
The big worry is the burgeoning population of redundant hardware in orbit – some 900,000 objects larger than 1cm by some counts – and all of it capable of doing immense damage to, or even destroying, an operational spacecraft in a high-velocity encounter.
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Harry Miller is a writer and editor based in Toronto with 14 years of experience in the journalism industry. Before joining Canada News Media as a National Online Journalist, Miller worked as a senior writer and a reporter-editor with the Canadian Press and as a breaking news reporter with the Toronto Star. At Canada News Media he covers national news and the trending stories Canadians are searching for. Miller holds two bachelor's degrees, one in journalism from Ryerson University and another in communications and film studies from Carleton University.
