Context
Since the beginning of the space age in 1957, tonnes of rockets, spacecraft, and instruments have been launched into space. Initially, there was no plan for what to do with them at the end of their lives. Since then, numbers have continued to increase and explosions and collisions in space have created hundreds of thousands of shards of dangerous debris.
Analysis
What is Space Junk?
Reasons for increasing junks
How much is India responsible for?
What is being done to tackle space debris?
What are the current space regulations?
UNCOPUOS (1958):
Outer Space Treaty
What is the present scenario of space security?
What are the major threats to space?
Space security threats are growing. The major threats to the space are as follow:
Verifying, please be patient.