Documentary: Alert in orbit, the threat of space debris

French

Alors que l'espace est devenu un nouvel eldorado, des scientifiques, partout dans le monde, cherchent aujourd'hui à nettoyer le ciel de ses poubelles. Il n'aura fallu que 60 ans de conquête spatiale pour polluer la banlieue.
 

English

At a time when space has become a new Eldorado, scientists all over the world are seeking to clean up the sky of its rubbish. It has only taken 60 years of space conquest to pollute the planet's inner suburbs, leaving behind over a hundred million pieces of debris: pieces of rockets, metal carcasses, obsolete satellites. More and more of this debris orbits the planet for decades, if not centuries. They are projectiles capable of colliding with a satellite, a space station or falling back to Earth. 

~ Scientists fear a growing cascading series of space junk collisions unless Earthlings stop polluting the orbits. It's called the Kessler Syndrome. If we don't get smart real soon this could cause much of the planet to go dark due to our reliance on satellites to run much of what we do.