Another Wake-up Call

Another Wake-up Call
Ashley Tellis and Michael Krepon, Space News
Debris poses a clear, present and growing danger to space operations. The latest wake-up call to take steps to address this danger was provided by the Feb. 10 collision between a dead Cosmos satellite and a revenue-producing Iridium satellite. This dreaded event may have produced the second worst debris field in the history of the space age.

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