Watch Video: Shocking visualisations reveal the huge cloud of space junk created by Russia’s anti-satellite test – as experts warn debris will cause havoc for spacecraft for YEARS, if not decades

Shocking visualisations reveal the huge cloud of space junk created by Russia’s anti-satellite test – as experts warn debris will cause havoc for spacecraft for YEARS, if not decades

• Russia deliberately downed its own defunct intelligence satellite a week ago
• Debris from the collision includes ‘1,500 pieces of trackable size’, NASA said 
• Astronauts aboard the ISS were ordered to get inside the station’s escape pods
• One space firm called it an ‘irresponsible act that harms all spacefaring nations’ 
• Now, animations show the scale of space junk created by the deliberate collision