Space debris/External Links

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General

• NASA Orbital Debris Program Office
  • Orbital Debris FAQ
  • Orbital Debris Quarterly News
• SPACE.com -- Space Junk

Specific Events

• Earth's Artificial Ring: Project West Ford An article describing a project to scatter tiny copper antennas in orbit.
• Chinese ASAT Test A page analyzing the 2007 Chinese Anti-Satellite Weapon Test and the resulting cloud of space debris.

Tracking

• Space-Track A source for space surveillance data
• SOCRATES A free daily service predicting close encounters on orbit between satellites and the thousands of rocket bodies and other pieces of debris orbiting Earth.