I know space junk can fall to earth but does it ever go the other way and fly off into deep space?

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I know space junk can fall to earth but does it ever go the other way and fly off into deep space?

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No, space junk is typically from satellites and rocket launches, so everything is quite close to the earth. The earth’s gravity will make the junk come towards it.

It takes a lot of power to get past earths gravitational pull.

I guess if the voyager satellite and others, who are further away from earth will eventually become space junk and not come back to earth, but those would be the exception.