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ICYMI: Orbital space junk is putting us in jeopardy

The US Air Force can track 10,000 pieces of space debris at a time.

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Updated Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 9:30 AM·1 min read

Today on In Case You Missed It: The US Air Force is moving its Space Surveillance Telescope to Australia to track space junk littering geosynchronous orbit. That's the orbit 22,000 miles away from our planet where satellites mirror the Earth's rotation so that they don't appear to move.

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