But it is the smaller pieces that we tend to worry about when it comes to space junk.

What we've been talking here, there's been several collision avoidance manoeuvres.

There's one every two minutes currently.

All of this shows, though, is that it's not coming down.

It's going up and it's staying up.

Hello, welcome to the supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society with me, science

journalist Izzy Clark and astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst.

We think space needs a little bit of a spring clean.

So this episode will be chatting about space debris.

What is it?

How big of a problem is it? And what is being done to remove it?

Yeah, so we'll be hearing from Megan Perks from the University of Southampton, who studies how safe

all these new satellite constellations are and photographer Max Alexander, who's created

an exhibition about space debris. It's called Our Fragile Space, and it's on for free outside of the Royal Astronomical Society

until the 10th of May, 2026,

for anyone that listens to our back catalogue,

that's this year.

But don't worry if you can't make it,

because Max gave me a tool,

which you'll hear later in the show.

And it features Deputy Director of the Royal Astronomical Society, Dr. Robert Massey.

So, Robert, let's dive in.

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