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Dabney B. on
Monday, April 9th, 2012
A while ago, we covered the growing need to track, catalog, and potentially destroy the cloud of orbital space debris circling Earth. So far, solutions have ranged from the high tech to the relatively simple. While scientists are coming up with ...
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Dabney B. on
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Space junk: we can locate it, track it, and we can pull the larger pieces back to earth to destroy them. But what about the smaller chunks of space debris? These tiny pieces of orbital junk represent the most difficult ...
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Dabney B. on
Monday, March 12th, 2012
Last Week, we took a look at Lockheed Martin's Space Fence program, which aims to chart and monitor all of the debris orbiting earth. This is certainly an admirable task, but it is really the first step of a two-step ...
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