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Litter in Space
When I watched the Mercury & Gemini blastoffs as a child in Ohio, this problem was not much contemplated.
NY Times: Orbiting Junk, Once a Nuisance, Is Now a Threat
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It might be shrewd to create an international effort to build and operate space junk collection vehicles to gather stuff and shoot it into the pacific ocean. Or collect it and sell it as memorabilia to underwrite the missions.
The problem can be easily dealt with once the US and China deploy their laser armed star wars platforms in space…
When comm sattelites start crashing into the junk and shut down we have a problem.
It’s been written about in sci-fi circles for quite a while. I doubt that it’s been factored into the cost models the government uses to estimate project cost, etc.