A SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage slammed into the lunar surface, sending a debris plume visible even from Earth — the latest reminder that decades of leftover rocket hardware are still drifting through cislunar space with no one clearly responsible for tracking or cleaning it up. As Artemis and multiple private landers head to the same general neighborhood, who should be on the hook for space debris that nobody currently owns?
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Debris tracking up there is becoming a real problem