Race to the stars (4/4). Space near Earth is cluttered with 36,000 objects larger than 10 centimeters in diameter, threatening to collide with an increasing number of satellites.
A few days ago, pieces of a Chinese rocket were found off Busuanga island in western Palawan and in Calintaan town in Occidental Mindoro province, both areas where the Philippine
Philippines found suspected debris from a recent Chinese rocket launch at sea off the two provinces, officials said on Wednesday. The officials further pressed efforts for the country's need to ratify two United Nations treaties that allow people to seek compensation for damage or injury from space launches from "a space object of another state". Earlier, Spain had briefly shut its airspace in multiple regions on November 4 as remnants of a Chinese rocket passed by before hitting the ocean off Mexico’s coast.