Who's going to fix the space junk problem?

07-31-2021 • https://www.space.com, By Paul Sutter

There are over 20,000 known and tracked pieces of space debris orbiting Earth, each one traveling at about 15,000 mph (24,000 km/h). They pose a risk to future space missions, and nobody is bothering to clean it up. Why? Because it's too hard.