The only emerging market nations to see downgrades or credit outlook changes to negative were in the junk bond space, and some corporates.
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The harpoon is clearly aimed at capturing the larger objects but many other solutions have been proposed, including the use of lasers to nudge space junk out of the way, or using giant nets and space tugs.
Some fly by night piece of space junk that doesn't even have a name?
In fact, petroleum products have been replaced by recycled space junk discovered on the last shuttle flight.
Its movements had all the hallmarks of being a spent rocket casing or other piece of space junk.
Reed warns that if space junk is not removed it could mean that low-earth orbit might eventually become unusable.
She heads a campaign to protect space junk, arguing that some of the celestial flotsam is of great historical value.
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Observations made by Tony Beresford in Australia indicate that the object's position does not match any known piece of space junk.
It happened in February 2009, when a defunct Russian Cosmos smashed into a functioning American Iridium, destroying both and creating even more space junk.
This is the global forum through which world governments discuss the issue of "space junk" - abandoned rocket stages, defunct satellites and their exploded fragments.
Experts and leading government agencies have been working on the space junk problem for decades, but it's a tricky one to solve, Schonberg told CNN.
But even Nasa sees the silver lining of some space junk.
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The results could help scientists better understand the swelling and shrinking of our planet's atmosphere, a phenomenon that affects the orbits of satellites and space junk.
As a result, diplomats and military officials from the U.S. and many other countries have been discussing ways to remove or alleviate the dangers of space junk.
This will push the dust through the orbits where space junk can be found, and the resulting drag will, in theory, disrupt the orbit of the small debris.
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Scientists estimate that there are hundreds of thousands of junk fragments in space of up to 10cm (four inches) in size, but there are many millions more pieces that are smaller.
The researchers estimate that it would take about 15 years for the dust to eventually settle down to Earth, and it would take a substantial chuck of space junk with it.
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While certain military interests have pushed for anti-satellite weapons since the Cold War, concern over the space junk that destroyed sats would create has kept the international community from serious pursuit of any "Star Wars"-like programs.
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This year the students had to program their SPHERES to deploy dust clouds that could remove space junk from orbit, dock with another satellite to harvest its parts, and maneuver through an unknown field full of debris.
The report also examines the possibility that it could have been space junk burning up on re-entry -- citing the Satview website, which notes that an object from orbit was due to burn through Earth's atmosphere at around that time.
No scientist on Earth has yet established a proven way as how one might propel even a relatively small space craft in the scale of the Apollo command vehicle at near light speeds never mind a huge piece of space junk like a Death Star.
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According to NASA there are about 20, 000 pieces of space junk bigger than 10cm (3.9 inches) and its chief scientist for orbital debris Nicholas L. Johnson says most robotic satellite missions are vulnerable to particles as small as 5mm (0.2 inches) -- there are thought to be millions of those in orbit.
We weren't able to peek in the trunk, but we're told the new engine provides more space for your junk than the Karma's current arrangement.
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The tools used to stop spam get in the way of stopping these messages precisely because they occupy that hard-to-define space between real junk and real messages.
Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, a leading space research center, recently conducted feasibility studies into junk-zapping lasers and garbage-collecting rockets.
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