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The
of space debris will get bigger as more companies and countries launch rockets into the
. There has been a heating up of the space race in the
decade. Many satellites from the USA, China, India and other
are now orbiting Earth and probing
space. Commercial companies, such as Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin have sent
of rockets into low-Earth orbit. The European Space Agency estimated that there are
more than 14,000 tons of debris circling our
. This includes over 170 million pieces of space junk that are wider than one millimetre. Most of these
burn up upon re-entry into our
.
