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Space debris larger than 1 cm can damage space instruments and impact Earth. The low‐Earth orbits (at heights smaller than 2,000 km) and orbits near the geostationary‐Earth orbit (at 35,786 km height) are especially endangered because most satellites orbit at these latitudes. With current technology, space debris smaller than 10 cm cannot be tracked. Smaller space debris fragments burn up and evaporate...
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