Space applications play an important role in technological advancements. This is because satellites are useful in existing applications like earth observations and future computing (hosting space based data centres). In these applications, satellites increase the amount of space debris as they reach their end of life. Therefore, the reduction of space debris for hosting future space application is crucial. The discussion in this paper considers that increasing space debris limits the deployment of additional earth observation satellites and future space based data centres. This challenge is addressed in this paper that proposes the use of non–earth’s orbital locations for hosting earth observation satellites and siting space data centres in regions having low debris. In addition, the proposed solution aims to identify regions in space with low space debris for hosting space based data centres. The performance metric is the rate of space debris generation (RSDG). The proposed solutions presents a framework to enable the acquisition and aggregation of data for RSDG computation in a given space region. Regions in non–earth orbital locations are utilized when the RSDG in a given earth’s orbital location exceeds a pre–defined threshold. In addition, the RSDG is formulated via the adaptation of the Shannon relation utilized to formulate the channel capacity in wireless communications. The result of evaluation shows that the RDSG is reduced by 50% on average due to the use of the proposed mechanism.