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Originally Posted by Sunfish
Get used to being bombarded from space by industrial waste.
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Stuff like this comes mostly from upper stage, orbital insertion units that end up in low, elliptical orbits.
Even SpaceX, obviously, wastes these at the moment.
With the advent of fully reusable Starship and friends, this will likely decrease.
Lower orbit satellites are usually smaller, burning right up, middle level tend to stay there as nav hazards, higher one get moved out further to free up orbits.
There was a good Astronomycast podcast a few months ago about it.
I lived near Hoxton Park Aerodrome once. When leveling the block they unearthed the landing leg of a WWII plane. This was near where two planes collided, crashing on houses.
I'll take the odds on space junk any day!