To Fix the Space Junk Problem, Add a Self-Destruct Module
Dec 12, 2017•7 min
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Episode description
Humans have gotten pretty good at launching stuff into space—but way less good at getting stuff back down. Up in lower Earth orbit, along with a thousand-plus productive satellites, there are many more slackers: space junk, cosmic trash, garbage of the highest-orbiting order.
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