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Space debris
The European SPace Agency's (ESA's) estimation of space debris objects currently in orbit. The vulnerability of telecoms satellites and other space hardware to debris was highlighted in the film Gravity recently, and is a genuine hot topic in the space community. In June 2014, ESA launched a dedicated web site providing software for debris risk assessment and mitigation analysis. Credit: ESA.
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