A space junk disaster is a real possibility — here’s how the US government is preventing a chain of collisions that’d threaten human access to space Posted by Genevieve Klien in government, space 03.27.2018 Tiangong-1, China’s modular space station, is crashing to Earth. With so much junk in space, the chance of a “Kessler Syndrome” catastrophe may be increasing. Read more