Towards Accountability: A Primer on the Space Debris Problem and an Overview of the Legal Issues Surrounding It

Since 1957, the near-Earth population of trackable space objects has grown in number to over 36,000. Of these 36,000+ trackable objects now in low Earth orbit, just a few thousand are working spacecraft. The rest are Earth-orbiting objects which are no longer operational and are considered to be spa...

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Published in:Aerospace
Main Author: William Schonberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-07-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/12/7/609