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Published online 17 May 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020513-9
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Stop to waste of space
Guidelines to crack down on spacecraft garbage.
Scientists representing the world's spacefaring nations have settled on plans to prevent the final frontier from filling up with man-made junk. Moving at thousands of kilometres per hour, even tiny pieces of orbiting debris are a threat to satellites, space probes and manned missions1.
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