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Trash in the Sky: Solving the Space Junk Crisis
Debris is making orbit dangerous—and harder to navigate.
Before we go to Mars, we'll have to clean Earth's orbit
There are over 30,000 tracked objects in Earth orbit, and tens of thousands more untracked. This article explores how startups and space agencies are addressing orbital debris with clean-up tech and routing platforms. Experts debate liability, physics, and funding.
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ESA (2023). *Space Debris Tracker*; NASA ODPO (2024). *Orbital Debris Quarterly*; Astroscale (2024). *Commercial Debris Solutions*; MIT AeroAstro (2023). *Orbital Traffic Management Study*; Wired (2024);
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1 min read · March 29, 2025