Our exploitation and exploration of house has left 13,000 tonnes of junk orbiting Earth. Defunct craft and bigger items of particles are additionally colliding, including to the hundreds of thousands of smaller fragments which might destroy satellites offering the connectivity, navigation and local weather knowledge humanity now relies on. The FT’s Peggy Hollinger investigates the know-how and insurance policies aimed toward mitigating the issue.
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