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The Detumbler from Airbus is designed to stop a dead satellite from tumbling so it can be cleaned up. See why it's a good way to clean up space junk.

Scientists find metal molecules in the stratosphere, consistent with burnt up spacecraft. The impact of such pollution remains unclear.

The ESA's assisted reentry of Aeolus satellite sets standard for responsible reentry. Watch it burn up upon reentry.

Between the launch of Sputnik in 1957 and today, humanity has collectively dropped tens of thousands of pieces of litter in low-Earth orbit. Some of it is large enough to keep an eye on, but most of it is too small to see. Worse, as space junk whips around the planet at more than 17,000 miles per hour, it inevitably smashes into other bits of junk, shattering into smaller but more numerous bits. When space exploration began, there wasn’t a lot of thought given to the ultimate fate of abandoned s

What can be done about all the space junk piling up? How bout spacebound trash bags?