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Spacefarers, protect our planet from falling debris

  1. Dipshikha Chakravortty

    1. Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India.

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  2. Saptarshi Basu

    1. Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India.

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  3. K. S. Nandakumar

    1. Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India.

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World cooperation can prevent collisions and the generation of debris in space (Nature 596, 163; 2021). In our view, international forums are also needed to monitor and deal with the uncontrolled fall of rockets and other debris from space. Such oversight would counter spacefaring nations’ current negligence in protecting Earth’s environment and ecology.

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Nature 597, 178 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02396-8

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