China Says Work Under Way to Mitigate Space Junk


	China Says Work Under Way to Mitigate Space Junk

tabsey

6-28-2009 9:01 AM

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space, (between, the, ears, )

tabsey says:

It seems blasting old satellites with rockets, leaving debris all over the place, is not so popular.

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