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Published September 24, 2026
BBC News podcast Rethink interviewed John Crassidis in a report on space debris and the proliferation of satellites in low-Earth orbit. “So currently there are about 54,000 objects that are greater than 10 centimeters in size that we can actually track. That’s about a softball size,” Crassidis said.
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