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More lunar missions means more space junk around the Moon – two astronomers are building a catalog to track the trash

  • Written by Vishnu Reddy, Professor of Planetary Science, University of Arizona
More lunar missions means more space junk around the Moon – two astronomers are building a catalog to track the trashThere are more than 100 missions to the Moon planned in the coming years, including the next Artemis missions.NASA

Scientists and government agencies have been worried about the space junk surrounding Earth for decades. But humanity’s starry ambitions are farther reaching than the space just around Earth. Ever since the 1960s with the launch...

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