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title: The Destructive Power Of Space Junk — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/the-destructive-power-of-space-junk/
date: 2011-11-24
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# The Destructive Power Of Space Junk

In space, a piece of orbiting junk the size of a cherry collides with the force of an exploding grenade. Holger Krag at Esa’s Space Debris Office – which monitors more than 16,000 bits of junk in Earth orbit – explains how manned spacecraft are shielded.

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