This piece was originally published in Wired and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. In early October, a dead Soviet satellite and the abandoned upper stage of a Chinese rocket narrowly avoided a collision in low Earth orbit. If the objects had crashed, the impact would have blown them to bits and created thousands of new pieces of dangerous space debris.
Spent Rockets Are Dangerous Space Trash, But They Could Be The Future Of Living And Working In Orbit
Will Peischel, Mother Jones
Fri, 11/27/2020 - 4:00am
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