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With more Moon missions on the horizon, avoiding crowding and collisions will be a growing challenge

  • Written by Mariel Borowitz, Associate Professor of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
imageMany companies and space agencies want to send satellites to orbit the Moon, and crowding could become a concern. European Space Agency ©ESA, CC BY-NC

Interest in the Moon has been high – just in the past two years there have been 12 attempts to send missions to the Moon, nearly half of which private companies undertook. With so much...

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