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Near-Earth orbits are filled with useful satellites, and also flying junk. If we’re not careful they may collide - literally.
Since the birth of space flight in 1957, the number of man-made objects orbiting the Earth has grown every year. There are now more than 15,000 such objects larger than 10cm, at least those that we know…
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