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Space junk in Earth orbit and on the Moon will increase with future missions โˆ’ but nobody's in charge of cleaning it up (theconversation.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

LEO junk is fine because the junk will quickly undergo orbital decay

high orbits should be monitored more closely though

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Fedi is weirdly more downvote happy than reddit used to be. You made a simple factual statement, either true or false. Nobody's pointing out any mistakes, just downvotes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

eh who cares