The decline in space is an increasing risk for the safety of air travel – and can also damage the economy, experts warn

Talk about a potentially explosive matter.

The risk of misleading missile waste and other man -made space dumps is a growing challenge that will worsen only after increasing interplanetary traffic and commercial airline flights, experts warn.

The new research published in scientific reports suggests that the problem is now being taken from a film worthy of the film, probably not in the scenario of a million Lighyars for a concern of the real world.

“In short, there is a 26 percent chance for an uncontrolled space there are waste in compressed airspace such as the United States or Northern Europe every year,” Ewan Wright said at the University of British Columbus, Vancouver , Canada.

Wright is co -author of the letter, entitled “Closing the Airspace I Want to rebuild space objects”.

The analysis of the academic work posted by Space.com quoted an example from the last month last month, when a space space exploded in a ball over the North Atlantic Ocean, near the Turks and Caicos.

During the so -called “devastating events”, FAA activated what is known as an area of ​​waste response, holding planes again from the affected area for a short time.

Earlier in January, a separation ring from a rocket reported to weigh about 1,000 lbs. The place collided in the middle of a village in Kenya, authorities said.

The study authors noted that an increasing number of land stops – and other measures already take to ensure airline safety during ordinary weather events, including wine storms – can damage the economy.

“This situation puts national authorities in a dilemma – to close the airspace or not – with the safety and economic implications in the same way,” wrote Wright and peers.

Their suggestion “checked to be checked again in the ocean” for all future missions.

The interplanetary cat seems to be already out of its ground bag, however.

Currently, more than 2,300 missile bodies are sailing there – and is eventually expected to fall wherever they feel like doing so, reports space.com.

“Airspace authorities will face the challenge of uncontrolled support for the following decades,” the researchers concluded.

Previously, scientists warned that the rate with which the spatial junk was growing was coming dangerously to destroy our view of the stars from below.

“We can see traces of human space traffic fingers in stratospheric aerosol,” said Troy Thornberry, a research physicist at the Noah chemical science lab last year.