He hoped they would not remain inside the field of space debris for much longer.

"Perhaps it was just some chunk of space debris we passed by."

He has no more desire to become space debris than we do."

In order to reduce future space debris, various ideas have been proposed.

"The statistics show you're much more likely to be hit by lightning" than a piece of space debris, he said.

"And it's too early to determine whether Columbia was struck by space debris."

But there was a sizable band of space debris where the third planet should have been.

I will feel better when this station and the Enterprise are space debris."

We have to tackle the problem of space debris.

"Could they be tracking some kind of space debris?"

Space debris wouldn't come in a steady flow, would it?

Sometimes they look like floating space debris, at other times random marks on a piece of paper.

The ring of space debris that resulted may have ultimately come together to form the Moon.

And besides, this area is remarkably free of space debris."

"So a Sweeper found a bit of space debris left over from the war.

And could asteroids be classified as space debris, do you think?"

For example, they said, the agency has taken steps to reduce sources of space debris that might strike the station.

"Otherwise," he continued, "the Enterprise would have been space debris."

There are also inoperative satellites and over 300,000 pieces of space debris.

Each piece of shrapnel now has the potential to cause further damage, creating even more space debris.

So as investigators try to determine how the shuttle Columbia was lost, space debris is a suspect.

A. Well, we have experience with space debris.

The outpost's size alone makes it a huge target for asteroids and space debris.

Planners especially worry that space debris might hit a manned spacecraft.

Let me close with the following remarks. Mention has been made of the problem of space debris.

Only about 1,000 of these represent operational spacecraft; the rest are orbital debris.

"An international treaty or agreement specifically devoted to orbital debris may be necessary."

"We've picked up the orbital debris of two ships, sir.

It is recognized world-wide for its leadership in addressing orbital debris issues.

Work at the center continues with developing an improved understanding of the orbital debris environment and measures that can be taken to control its growth.

Awareness was raised about the orbital debris problem.

One of his areas of research was orbital debris and planetary defense against meteor impacts.

They also often need shielding from micrometeoroids and orbital debris.

Later examination revealed two hundred small craters caused by orbital debris, much more than anticipated.

That is, he said, whether the damage was caused by falling foam, or by something else, like orbital debris.

As part of a system to help the elevator avoid orbital debris, the mobile platform can be repositioned.

This had implications for the calibration of optical and radar orbital debris detection systems.

The satellite forms part of the growing amounts of orbital debris orbiting around the Earth.

China destroyed an old satellite in 2007 with a ground-based weapon, creating more than 3,000 pieces of orbital debris.

Projectiles from the gun fell back into the sea if they didn't hit anything, but orbital debris stays up there for months.

Imagine if one of the international space station's modules were to be punctured by a meteorite or orbital debris.

The windows also had many chips in them caused by micrometeoroids and orbital debris.

However, the sensors detect none of the orbital debris common to a world that has passed through the traditional historical phases."

The Defense Department said the test would not destroy the satellite, produce orbital debris or pose any risk to other spacecraft.

That risk was, statistics suggested, far higher than if any other component of the orbiter was struck by orbital debris.

In the 1990s, Goldstein also worked on applying radar techniques for detecting orbital debris.

Below is a breakdown of the approximate composition of orbital debris:

Require the shuttle to be operated with the same degree of safety as the space station for micrometeors and orbital debris.

"Existing international treaties and agreements are inadequate for minimizing the generation of orbital debris or controlling its effects," the report said.

Both the Soyuz-7 and the Keyhole were vaporized into clouds of spinning metal orbital debris.

To learn more about space junk, read the next page.

The space junk passed within three miles of the station.

"He was just a piece of space junk that happened to get us.

One is most commonly used in order to avoid a piece of space junk.

It will think they are bits of space junk associated with the cluster.

"They run out of gas and they become space junk."

His craft was undetectable - just another piece of space junk.

Several satellites over the years have been lost to unknown causes and may well be the first victims of space junk.

But what about gangster cars or even space junk?

"If even one blast gets through to those storage pods, we'll all be space junk!"

But now, he said, with the steady rise over the years in space junk orbiting the Earth, that figure has increased to 15 percent.

Besides, with all the space junk and flying energy beams, we're not going to get their attention."

It'll be used for salvaging dead satellites and other space junk."

In recent years China has played a growing international role in fighting the proliferation of space junk.

In addition, this minimises the creation of orbital space junk.

If we can do that, it would look as though a piece of orbiting space junk had impacted the satellite.

Hughes took possession of what looked to be an expensive piece of space junk.

"I'm only thirty meters away, and it doesn't look like anything but space junk to me.

The equipment that protected the farm from space junk is the same type as we use on all the harvesters.

He has also spoken on the dangers of space junk and called for more and better monitoring.

Apparently we are about to hit a "tipping point" where there is so much space junk that it could cause a chain reaction.

A spare thermal glove became an early piece of space junk when it floated away from White.

Experts say exploded satellites and discarded rockets have created about 30,000 pieces of space junk.

The astronauts on the Mir space station are not the only people who've seen space junk.

It accelerated toward a collection of space junk.

A lot of space wasted, it still looks rather primitive.

Let me tell you, the up part can be pretty cool, but those landings suck space waste.

To be honest, I'm waiting for it, my collection of book is kind of a space waste.

He liked their clever compactness, not an inch of space wasted.

Space wasted on inappropriate or redundant content.

The pretense ends, however, with the text: there are no articles whatsoever, no space wasted on any subject other than what's being sold.

The quarters behind the salle turned out to be a series of interconnected rooms, with no space wasted on halls.

In addition, most cruise lines have adopted policies that restrict discharges of machinery space waste within three miles (5 km) from shore.

No space wasted here!

When large amounts of waste are present, using a compact baler can reduce the amount of space waste occupies.

More space wasted on meaningless waffle Ewan.

Mr. Aguilar considers most electronics "ugly and space wasting," so he plays music from his computer, hidden on a curtained shelf.

As a developer, Mr. Marchetta said, he hates to see space wasted on unused parking.

It wasn't like that in Ohio; if you wanted corn you grew corn, and no space wasted on trees and stuff.

The recent interview with Martin Scorcese was worth a hundred space wasting articles about the Oscars which are still more than three months away.

Just as dead space wastes a fraction of the inhaled breath, dead space dilutes alveolar air during exhalation.

Space debris, also known as orbital debris, space junk, and space waste, is the collection of defunct objects in orbit around Earth.

It is a challenge to fill that line correctly: no clothes touching, no space wasted, no underpants showing, no wet laundry at day's end.

It is also necessary to make sure that objects allocated in the 32-bit environment do not cross 64 KiB boundaries; this generates some address space waste.

No space wasted ... the tight-packed traditional centre of Altensteig in the Black Forest.

There's no space wasted here, no time for petty guitar solos or downtuned bass trickery, just a focussed, relentless attack."

With little space wasted on statues or landmarks that consumed unnecessary real estate, Taikoo Shing's design was the new standard.

But in view of the space wasted on repetitions, vaporings and mere name lists, it's a pity that space wasn't found to mention some really major developments.

The first was that printing in all caps (Hoofdletters in Dutch means uppercase letters) would save the space wasted by the ascenders and descenders of lowercase letters.

"In a hotel, everybody wants a room with a window, so if the floors are much larger you end up with the rooms on the periphery of the building and space wasted on corridors."