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		ck2 on April 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SpaceX Falcon Heavy announced: 53 metric tons to l... This really is impressive news. Out of curiosity, is there a plan by any government to clean up the ever increasing mess of space junk in LEO ?

kahirsch on April 5, 2011 | [–]

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Russia_To_Spend_2_Bln_Doll...

bpodgursky on April 6, 2011 | | [–]

I found this chart from the Economist pretty interesting:

http://media.economist.com/images/images-magazine/2010/34/ST...

Aside from the giant spike when China decided to blow up a satellite, it seemed to be leveling out...

sasvari on April 6, 2011 | [–]

planned for precaution:

http://www.weblab.dlr.de/rbrt/OOS/DEOS/DEOS.html

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