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Space Archaeology (SPACE JUNK) with Alice Gorman

Ologies with Alie Ward

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The Evolution of Satellites

Two to three thousand working satellites are up there now plus 4,000 defunct old ones. There are 35,000 bits of space junk bigger than about the palm of your hand and millions of smaller shall we say micro junk. Soon 30,000 new satellites will join five times the number that areup there now but SpaceX can launch something like this because as a private cosmos courier service they have made launches much more affordable for themselves.

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