Stronger International Cooperation Needed To Address Growing Threat of “Space Junk”


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Stronger International Cooperation Needed To Address Growing Threat of “Space Junk”

Sputnik 1 first streaked across the virgin heavens a half-century ago ushering in the Space Age. Since then the number of manmade objects circling the globe has swelled into the hundreds of thousands. Space-based systems such as Global Positioning System (GPS), telecommunications, and weather forecasting have become so woven into daily life that they are taken for granted. .


By AAAS, USA.


Technology Policy Resource.