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Template:Cell styleA list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Space debris.

Parent Topic

  • Satellite [r]: An object that travels in orbit around a more massive body. [e]

Subtopics

Major types of space debris

Major Debris Creation Events

Other related topics

  • Orbit [r]: A (nearly) closed or repeating path [1] traveled by one object around another due to the force of gravity. Orbits are approximately elliptical in shape, and can be very nearly circular. (A circle is a special case of an ellipse, where the ellipse has an eccentricity of zero.) [e]

Important satellites