space junk
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
It turns out, though, that it looks like a warehouse of space junk, and it sounds like an industrial-strength air-conditioning system.
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026
Critical technical aspects of such operations need to be resolved, particularly harm done to GPUs by high levels of radiation and extreme temperatures as well as the danger of being hit by space junk.
From Barron's • Nov. 5, 2025
But that would require 24-hour monitoring to adjust the OCO orbit to avoid space junk — not an infrequent occurrence.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2025
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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