[amsat-bb] Look OUT Cube Sats

[Gerald Payton]

Look out Cube Sats, you may be whupped on:   http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/12/12/japan-to-smack-space-junk-with-2-3k-foot-whip.html

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Japan to smack space junk with 2.3K-foot whip<http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/12/12/japan-to-smack-space-junk-with-2-3k-foot-whip.html>
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Can a whip as long as six football fields destroy some of the 500,000 pieces of space junk spinning around Earth at 17,500 miles per hour?