Ending Space Trash

Ending Space Trash

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May 28, 2019
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Started by Chana Gaines

I think that we should get rid of space trash because it crashes into working satellites and then the satellites turn into space trash. In 1996 a French satellite was hit and damaged by space junk from a french rocket that blew up a decade earlier. On Feb. 10 ,2009 a Russian satellite crashed with and destroyed a working U.S. Iridium commercial satellite. The crash added more than 2,000 pieces of space junk to space. To make a satellite, it is very expensive. It costs about $100 million to build the satellite and another $50 million to launch them. If there was a lot of space trash then the space trash would hit the working satellites and the satellites would turn into pieces of more space junk. Also the people who made those satellites would have to pay more money to send another satellite into space and then that satellite would get destroyed and it wold just keep going and then there would be so much space junk in space.  There is more than 500,000 pieces of space trash in space. 

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