ElI5: How does anything in space not just get destroyed by high speed objects accelerating through space? How can we have space stations that are not blasted with huge holes from impacts?

Question

ElI5: How does anything in space not just get destroyed by high speed objects accelerating through space? How can we have space stations that are not blasted with huge holes from impacts?

In: Engineering

Answer 1

Space is empty.

Really, space is really almost completely empty.

There are things out there, damage has occurred, and maneuvers are made to avoid the big things that are being tracked. But mostly, space stations depend on space just being empty.