The quantitiy of debris in space has been causing concern to agencies involved with exploring space and companies depending on satellites installed there. But now space agencies have demonstrated the capability of a new system which tracks debris and is intended to prevent collisions. The system detected a near-collision situation in which 3.8 tons of rocket booster waste left over from a Chinese launch threatened the 8 ton European Space Agency (ESA) Envisat Earth remote-sensing spacecraft.

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It was the end of April and the Hubble telescope in space was 20 years old.

No one ever suspected, the presence of the Hubble telescope has answered the most fundamental human questions about the formation of universe, the solar system, Earth, and particularly human origin. “The key was the finding that new stars are born containing the same chemical element with the compiler of the human body,” said John Grunsfeld, a former astronaut who three times follow the Hubble telescope repair mission, told CNN.

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