Report on efforts to map, track, and hopefully eventually clean the growing population of orbital debris.
China announced Wednesday it plans to begin three programs to monitor, prevent and curb the movements of debris in outer space, including setting up a new space tracking center.
A new eye in the sky is about to take the measure of a pollution problem that is out of this world. A US satellite to be launched today will count bits of cosmic debris 500 miles above the Earth's surface.