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title: How the Space Station avoids junk in space — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/how-the-space-station-avoids-junk-in-space/
date: 2016-10-23
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# How the Space Station avoids junk in space

There are thousands of pieces of used rockets, retired spacecrafts, and fragments from reentry floating around near Earth. Each one poses a hazard to the International Space Station — here’s how they avoid hitting each one.