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dchallenge t1_j2c0lg9 wrote

Will it some day be a hazard to navigation ?

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TraditionalSell5251 t1_j2c6j5z wrote

All space junk is on a large scale, but very few individual pieces matter compared to the whole.

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Anubis17_76 OP t1_j2dlh2z wrote

yes and no, NASA tracks a whole bunch of space debris (this one is designated J002E3) so probably not. but its predicted to eventually crash into either the moon or the earth, where due to higher speed and different angle, it might actually not break up and be a nonissue like the upper stages from previous Apollo Missions :)

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Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho t1_j2cnv4g wrote

No. It's in interplanetary space.

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its-not-me_its-you_ t1_j2cpjwf wrote

One day a high school class will be taking a day trip to the sun and that fucking thing is going to go hurtling by without warning because the space bus didn't have detection systems because of cost saving because someone on reddit in 2022 said "No. Its in interplanetary space."

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