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Long March rocket s long fall makes case for space solutions
Sustainability Times
10 May 2021, 16:24 GMT+10
The global drama over China s Long March 5B rocket may have ended late Saturday with space debris raining down over the Indian Ocean, but industry experts warn there are decades worth of objects still in the sky and the problem will only grow in the coming years.
Japan s magnetic tethers and the European Union s ADEO drag sails are just two of the proposed technical solutions to reduce space junk. It ranges from more than 100 million tiny yet dangerous fragments, to some 26,000 objects that are at least the size of a softball and capable of destroying a satellite on impact.