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Radio 4,1 min

Why space junk could cost lives

BBC Inside Science

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There are millions of fragments of space junk floating above us, from tiny flecks of paint to dead satellites the size of a bus. Adam Rutherford asks BBC Science Correspondent Jonathan Amos why space scientists and engineers are increasingly worried about the growing problem of space debris.

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