WATCH
Short documentary 'Adrift' explores the troubling, beautiful, dangerous and fascinating world of space junk.
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ADOPT
Follow these pieces of space junk on Twitter to adopt them. They will communicate with you live from space.
VANGUARD
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"I circle Earth every 130 minutes. I will continue to orbit above you for the next 240 years.
SUITSAT
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"I was pushed out into Space in 2006 by astronauts on the International Space Station"
Fengyun
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"I'm a piece of space junk from the worst space debris event of all time. Go. Me."
LISTEN
'Machine 9' is a handcrafted electromechanical sound instrument that tracks the positions of 27,000 pieces of space junk, transforming them into sound, in real time, as they pass overhead.
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