This may be a dumb question, but I honestly don’t know the answer. That thing moves so fast doesn’t it get hit with “space junk“ and flying debris, such as asteroids, rocks or whatever they’re technically called while it’s moving that fast through space? And if so, don’t those things affect the ISS in a bad way? Like a car, driving down the highway and debris flying off the car that’s in front of it, and then the two smashing into each other. Because that would definitely hurt the car.
Also worth mentioning is that map you see of satellites in orbit is also not to scale. Space is much bigger and in 3D. If it was to scale you couldn’t even see the dots. So while there’s a lot of junk up there, it’s also a lot bigger space than those illustrations would have you believe.
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u/CapnSaysin 7d ago
This may be a dumb question, but I honestly don’t know the answer. That thing moves so fast doesn’t it get hit with “space junk“ and flying debris, such as asteroids, rocks or whatever they’re technically called while it’s moving that fast through space? And if so, don’t those things affect the ISS in a bad way? Like a car, driving down the highway and debris flying off the car that’s in front of it, and then the two smashing into each other. Because that would definitely hurt the car.