Aug 07
In the 1980s, the US Air Force only knew about roughly 5,000 pieces of space debris orbiting our planet. By 2010, that number had tripled to 15,639 objects. And our current space trash tracking system can’t even detect some of the smaller bits zipping around up there. That’s why the USAF is developing a new iteration of the venerable "Space Fence" that’s both more precise and more cost effective than its predecessor.
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