Ghosts in the Machine: Space Junk and the Future of Earth Orbit

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Abstract

Hundreds of millions of objects are orbiting our planet, 94 per cent of which are pure machine debris. Space archaeologist Alice Gorman , who is Senior Lecturer at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, takes this AD's investigations beyond the Earth's surface and out into the near universe – looking at the material and cultural implications of the status quo, and reflecting on possibilities for the years and centuries to come.

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