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Air Force Secretary Barrett Issues Call for Clean-Up of Space Debris

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Air Force Secretary Barrett Issues Call for Clean-Up of Space Debris
An aerial view of the U.S. Air Force’s Space Fence under construction on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The Space Fence design is to permit the tracking of much smaller space objects and to improve the timeliness with which operators can detect space events, which could present potential threats to GPS satellites or the International Space Station (Lockheed Martin Photo)

Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett on Nov. 16 called on industry to help the Air Force and U.S. Space Force with cleaning up space debris to help avoid collisions in space. "For a long time, the United States Air Force has been tracking space debris, but there's a lot more to be done," Barrett told the ASCEND 2020 forum sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). "What we'd like to see in the future is not just…

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