According to American experts, the United States will have a hard time engaging in future conflicts in space. The 2003 Columbia disaster and increasing security concerns are set to force NASA to retire its Space Shuttle fleet in 2010, instead of prolonging its mission until 2022 as initially planned. The U.S. will have to make do without the shuttles for at least five years, until the replacement
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The collision of the American iridium mobile
communication satellite with a Russian satellite wreck on February 10th left behind a huge cloud of rubbish in outer space. There are 18,000 objects
bigger than 10cm in size circulating around the globe, and at the moment you
will only find around 900 active satellites. The rest is space debris, which
presents a growing danger for all
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