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	Podcast:		Short Wave
	Episode:		Space Junk: How Cluttered Is The Final Frontier?
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:11:20
	Publish Date:		2020-01-13 09:00:43
	Description:		Since the dawn of Sputnik in 1957, space-faring nations have been filling Earth's orbit with satellites. Think GPS, weather forecasting, telecommunications satellites. But as those have increased, so, too, has space junk. On today's show, we talk about the first mission to clean up space junk and the problem debris poses to sustainability in space.
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