International agencies have agreed that retired hardware - old satellites or spent rocket stages - should be removed from space within 25 years of the end of service.
国际机构表示，包括老旧的卫星和废弃的太空舱在内的报废航天器应当在25年的服役期期满之前被清除出轨道。
The logs also included near-misses in the clutter of space: old rocket-stages, blankets and foot restraints, all orbiting past.
日志也记录了杂乱无章的太空中发生的一些虚惊事件：弃用的火箭级、覆盖层以及脚固定环都曾擦身而过。
Old satellites, chips of paint and jettisoned rocket stages arehurtling around the world at thousands of kilometres an hour.
废弃的卫星、航天器脱落的油漆颗粒、星箭分离脱落的零件碎片，这些太空垃圾以每小时几千公里的速度环绕地球急速飞行。
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