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The proliferation of space junk in low Earth orbit is a problem that isn’t going away. Instead, it’s getting worse— a fact that grabbed headlines last November when a Russian direct-ascent anti-satellite test produced enough new pieces of debris that astronauts aboard the International Space Station were forced to conduct immediate safety procedures in case of a collision.

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