Hugh Lewis director of space flight research at Southampton University said that "the face of the space waste problem is one of the biggest environmental challenges of mankind."
And his words came during the launch in Astronomy Society in London, a project initiated by artists and scientists to draw attention to 27 thousand pieces of this waste in an orbit around the Earth.
And increases the size of these residues ten centimeters. The estimated total number of such waste by about a hundred million pieces, but the majority of them are too small to pursue.
This resulted in the waste of space for missions carried out when the former Soviet Union launched in 1957 "Spotenk 1," the first artificial satellite.
This waste poses a serious threat now on space exploration on what scientists have warned.
Hugh Lewis explained "we use daily, but do not rely on the services provided by satellites without being aware to what extent are weak."
"This is a waste of space that can damage or even destroy the satellites of these as well as the actions of our generation not to hurt the dreams of the next four generations and their aspirations to live in space and work in it."
And it uses his project, entitled "Adreevt" films and records and social networks to dive in the risk of such waste.
And shows a documentary to accomplish cath if Couture astronaut and an expert on meteorology English - American Cilliers when Pierce got away from him a tool through the exit into space in the framework of mission, "Discovery" of the US Agency for Space Administration (NASA) in 2006.
The tool has remained swim fast 27 thousand kilometers per hour before burning when they enter the Earth's atmosphere.
Cilliers says in the documentary "constitute a waste of space actually an enemy of the pioneers."
In the framework of the project, anyone can "adopt" a piece of space debris through "Twitter" can be.
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