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it's friday october 14th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. The FCC has just announced new rules to combat space junk.

Plus, remember the company trying to bring back the woolly mammoth? The CIA just invested in them.

Plus, a previously unheard queen song featuring Freddie Mercury's vocals was just released.

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

Space junk is a serious issue.

Since we started launching things into space in the 50s,

used satellites, rocket stages, and other debris have steadily accumulated in orbit around our planet.

The number of objects in space went from being in the hundreds in the 60s to just over 5,000 in 1990 to 10,000 in 2010,

and over 27,000 now.

And now, it's not all junk, much of that is active satellites.

In recent years, so-called mega constellations have been on the rise.

SpaceX's Starlink accounts for more than half of all active satellites at about 3,000, with plans to grow to 12,000 in the coming

years. Amazon is also planning to send several thousand satellites up as part of their Starlink

competitor, Project Cooper. And the British company,

OneWeb, also accounts for about 400 satellites. But these satellites don't last forever. And once

they've completed their mission, they often just stay in orbit, joining the thousands of other

pieces of unused instruments and debris journeying

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