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Laser Proposed to Blast Away Space Junk

SPACE 04.18.2015 23:38 PM

The exploration to space has been paved with litter as missions after mission and satellite after satellite has left much of Earth's orbit as nothing more than a glorified garbage dump. Now, scientists have proposed a new way to deal with the trash problem - blast it.

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