Saturday, 10 August 2013

How the USAF Keeps Tabs on Space Junk




How the USAF Keeps Tabs on Space Junk
Aug 10th 2013, 18:00, by Andrew Tarantola
18vlosx4h0ctqjpgIn the 1980s, the US Air Force only knew about roughly 5,000 pieces of space debris orbiting our planet. By 2010 that number had tripled to 15,639 objects and our current space trash tracking system can’t even detect some of the smaller bits zipping around up there. That’s why the USAF is developing a new [...]
    


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