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JUNK CLOGS SPACE

JUNK CLOGS SPACE: More than 14 000 satellites including some 3 500 inactive surround the globe in low Earth orbit, data from US-based Slingshot Aerospace shows. Alongside those are about 120 million pieces of debris from launches, collisions and wear-and-tear of which only a few thousand are large enough to track.

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Namibian Sun 2025-04-04

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