space junk
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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This, he says, can be a positive development - a way of removing space junk as well as knocking out working satellites.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The rocket stage had been just one of tens of thousands of pieces of "space junk" orbiting Earth.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Chinese companies have launched satellites into orbit using single-use rockets, which can be costly and contribute to the increasing amount of potentially hazardous space junk.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
They worry that launch emissions and vaporized space junk could damage the ozone layer and interfere with the atmosphere’s complex chemistry in other ways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
They’re not eating up stars or alien ships any more than the Earth is eating up our space junk that falls from the sky.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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