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China has a satellite with an arm – and America worries it could be used to snatch other spacecraft

Slx

There really needs to be some kind of stronger and more enforced international agreements on satellites, particularly about what to do with the junk. We can't really afford to just junk another chunk of environment to the point that it's unusable.

If useful orbits end up full of fragments and broken up satellites, we're going to lose easy access to Space.

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