SCIENTISTS sounded the alarm over the problems posed to space missions from orbital junk -- the accumulating debris from mankind's six-decade exploration of the cosmos.
In less than a quarter of a century, the number of orbiting fragments large enough to destroy a spacecraft has more than doubled, a conference in Germany heard last Tuesday.
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