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Does earth orbiting debris that threatens the space station have a particular direction bias?
I guess I'm more or less the right person to answer this.
The orbital debris threat to ISS is heavily concentrated into two lobes in the local horizontal plane, somewhere between 20 and 30 degrees to ...
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What is the name of NASA's program to prevent back-contamination by crews returning to Earth?
"Apollo Lunar Quarantine"
Although it was indeed considered to be a remote possibility that lunar material was harmful to Earth life, a list of potential dangers was drawn up. The lunar ...
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Does earth orbiting debris that threatens the space station have a particular direction bias?
Since there are no other answers (and because I am unable to comment), I will try to give some information.
Most rockets and therefore satellites launch in the direction of Earth's motion, that is, ...
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