[FPSPACE] Space Junk // By Fred Guterl | NEWSWEEK // Published Aug1, 2009

[Jens Kieffer-Olsen]

-----Original Message-----
From: James Oberg [mailto:jameseoberg at comcast.net] 
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 6:28 AM

> Any publicity is supposed to be good publicity, but this article
> strikes me as being pretty garbled. 
> Or am I being (again, sigh) too over-critical?
>
> Space Junk // By Fred Guterl | NEWSWEEK //    Published Aug 1, 2009

 [snippo]

> The U.S. Space Surveillance Network currently uses a combination of
> radar and optical telescopes around the globe to keep tabs on objects
> greater than five to 10 centimeters, periodically updating the position
> of each one. Even so, it can manage only about 13,000 objects. 

 What a pity if the financial crisis is blocking for a cash injection
 allowing their inventory of 10 cm objects to grow by one order of
 magnitude.

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Jens Kieffer-Olsen
Slagelse, Denmark