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space junk en · NOUN
Meanings
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(informal, uncountable) Space debris.
But because the January 2025 lunar lander mission required more thrust than missions closer to Earth, the rocket’s second stage remained in space, floating aimlessly among thousands of other pieces of space junk that active satellites must steer clear of.
2026 August 5, Oliver Holmes, “SpaceX rocket thought to have crashed into the moon in unintentional collision”, in The Guardian, →ISSN: