To guide future responses to the space debris problem, examines strategies for nine comparable problems: acid rain, U.S. commercial airline security, asbestos,

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While a paradigm shift in space industry has already started involving “mass production” of higher standardized, large distributed systems such as constella

Derelict satellites, equipment and other debris orbiting Earth (aka space junk) have been accumulating for many decades and could damage or even possibly destro

Although the United States won the race to the moon, the Soviets were far more active in space than Americans during the decade that followed. By the 1980s, som