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Former astronaut, other senators introduce legislation to make low-Earth orbit safer

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83% Informative

U.S. senators introduce a bill to help track space junk in low Earth orbit.

The legislation would create a public database for tracking satellites and other objects in an increasingly commercially-operated sector.

Thousands of defunct satellites are joined in this space by an estimated 100 million small pieces of debris.

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86

Informative language

86

Neutral language

68

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formal

Language

English

Language complexity

66

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not offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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