Space Debris Damages Robotic Arm Attached to the International Space Station – PCMag AU

(Photo: NASA/Canadian Space Agency)
We regularly hear about the growing amount of space junk circling the Earth and the potential disaster a collision could cause. We haven’t had a disaster yet, but the International Space Station was damaged recently by a piece of debris too small to be monitored.
As the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) reports, the Canadarm2 robotic arm was hit by a piece of debris, which could have been anything from rock or dust particles to flecks of paint. The damage caused is…

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