Millions of of nuts, bolts, pieces of metal, along with entire spacecraft and satellites from thousands of missions and launches form an orbiting garbage dump around the Earth. From microscopic specks of metal and carbon, to satellites and other large debris, space junk presents a growing hazard to spacecraft, astronauts, and the deployment of satellites in Earth’s orbit.
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Tim Hurst is the founder/editor of ecopolitology and executive editor of LiveOAK Media. Tim mostly covers energy and environmental politics, renewable energy and green business; but seems to write more about music festivals in the summer for some reason. When not reading, writing, thinking, or talking about environmental politics to anyone who will listen, Tim likes to ski, hike with his aging labrador, and toil in his Colorado vegetable garden. He's on twitter at @ecopolitologist.
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