Deep-Sea Mining Guidelines Could Help us Figure Out Space Debris Regulation

Increasingly crowded orbits full of satellites and debris pose potential hazards for services on Earth, and need regulation.

By Paul Smaglik
Feb 3, 2025 11:00 PMFeb 3, 2025 11:09 PM
Satellites in space
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Outer space could use a set of traffic laws — and cops who can enforce them.

The amount of both space junk and satellites orbiting the Earth now, the moon soon, and Mars eventually, poses a massive, unseen threat to people on the ground, wrote three scientists in a commentary.

Risks of Space Junk

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