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There is an awful lot of junk floating around our planet. So much so that Dr Stuart Grey from UCL’s Space Geodesy and Navigation Laboratory created this data visualisation to highlight just how cluttered it is up there. “Space junk poses a very real danger to both manned and unmanned space missions,” Grey told The Next Web. “The International space station has to manoeuvre multiple times per year to avoid incoming space debris.” With every mission launched by Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in the tech race to the stars, as well as the huge OneWeb internet constellation also on the cards, that adds even more…

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