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For the second time Thursday, a federal appeals court ruled against the way the Bush administration is handling terror suspects.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco found that prisoners held at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba should have access to lawyers and the Americ
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So far, governments have opted to deal with the problem of space junk by implementing policies to reduce the creation of more debris. But that alone won ;t cut it 鈥?we also need to be removing stuff from orbit. One way to cover the high costs of space junk disposal would be a $1 tax on every GPS chip in a smartphone. Everybody who looked at the problem comes to the same conclusion: if we don ;t start removing five to ten objects per year for th
stanley taza e next 100 years, we ;ll have an unstable environment, said retired NASA scientist Donald Kessler at a recent conference on orbital debris. Unfortunately, as Jeff Foust reports in The Space Review, the U.S. government hasn ;t invested much in debris removal efforts. And while the private sector has been developing the technology that could get the job done, nobody seems prepared to pay for it: [James] Armor, now the vice president of ATK Spacecraft Systems and Services, said his company had looked at debris removal as a potential application for its ViviSat
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stanley cup rs suggested ways to help improve the case for active debris removal. That includes direct funding of debris removal efforts, either through government contracts or through a bounty system where th
