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JUNK CLOGS SPACE

  • 3 Week Ago - 2024-12-03 00:00:00
JUNK CLOGS SPACE: More than 14 000 satellites including some 3 500 inactive surround the globe in low Earth orbit, data from US-based Slingshot Aerospace shows. Alongside those are about 120 million pieces of debris from launches, collisions and wear-and-tear of which only a few thousand are large enough to track.

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Namibian Sun 2024-12-26

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