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    Space Junk or Space History?

    Jul 01, 2019 3 minutes
    by Gordon Grimwade

    Humans have been littering space for more than 60 years. An estimated 500,000 bits and pieces of discarded satellites, spacecraft, and rockets orbit Earth. And the problem just keeps growing. Space needs a cleanup.

    Hitting a nut or bolt while traveling at greater than 22,000 miles per hour is extremely dangerous. Space agencies are increasingly concerned about the issue. The University of Surrey, Guildford, England, is taking action. It heads the RemoveDEBRIS experiment,

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